The MD5 has to be published on a site known to not have been hacked. It can't travel with the TW file, because the whole kit could have been hacked.
It's an interesting idea that you could include a MD5 library with the TW file. That would make it easy to generate the number before publication and for users to check the numbers (comparing against a "secure" publication site.). Since most users aren't going to know how to use an MD5 command line tool. One would really hope that this is all hypothetical within the confines of the ecclesiastical field. Thanks! On Friday, September 27, 2019 at 3:48:12 PM UTC-7, Diego Mesa wrote: > > Hello Dave, > > Simple: Advertise that you always use github to distribute your TW. > Complicated: I would probably write the md5 hash of the TW in the about > page. That way, all a user has to do verify a TW is download it, delete one > tiddler, and calculate its hash to verify its you. > > On Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 8:24:27 AM UTC-5, David Gifford wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> I am exploring going back to publishing TiddlyWikis online, rather than >> exporting and publishing static htmls from tiddlers. >> >> One issue I need to confront, though, is the possibility that someone >> could download one of my TiddlyWikis, add malicious content (either text >> that I would not approve of, or a virus or somesuch), and publish it with >> my name on it elsewhere in a way that makes people think it is from me. >> >> I would like community feedback on what measures I might take to prevent >> that: hiding the save/download button when the file is online, etc? Or any >> other relevant feedback on this issue. >> >> Thanks and blessings, Dave >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/af8f4559-56f1-4aee-92af-cc74dd0403b0%40googlegroups.com.
