[uf-discuss] Authenticity of Authoritative hCard (was: Re: Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard)

[Brian Suda]

On 1/31/07, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
> In message
> <923a87360701310750p3808ce6bp138e9ca7dfdeb7e6 at mail.gmail.com>, Ara
> Pehlivanian <ara.pehlivanian at gmail.com> writes
>
> >what if someone registers ben-ward.net and puts up a fake
> >card on that site.
>
> Perhaps we need a "class="pgp-public-key"  property for hCard?
>
> ;-)

--- i'm not sure if that wink was ment for 'pgp-public-key' to be a
joke, but hCard and vCard do have a 'key' property.

This is an example in the wild.
http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/SVS/personnel/henrich/index.php

Much like the DATA URI it is possible to embed a BASE64 key into HTML.

-brian

-- 
brian suda
http://suda.co.uk