I'm working on a tool to make digitally signing messages a little easier. It will be hosted at sgnur.com (play on imgur)
Here is the problem I am solving. Digital signature are great, but they are picky - they certify that not a single bit has changed from the signed message. They are also really long - 40-80 lines of gibberish.
When vendors sign their messages here, they have a tough time because Reddit changes the formatting, invalidating the signature. They also clutter up the post with a big digital signature.
sgnur will be a kind of link shortener for digitally signed messages. Here is how it works:
1) You create an account at sgnur and enter your public key. No need for emails or passwords anything like that
2) When you want to publish a message, you just paste the message and your signature into sgnur. The site will validate the message and give you a short link like: sgnur.com/jLpasj
3) Now go on Reddit (or anywhere) and post your same message along with your sgnur link. If the formatting changes, that's ok.
4) When someone wants to verify, they can click the link and see the original message. If they want to further verify, they can validate the message signature (with unchanged formatting on sgnur) themselves independent of sgnur. So nothing is lost. It is just a little cleaner.
My plan is to scrape public keys and names from the markets so only vendors can use those account names. This is so we don't have any imposters since the market is an authoritative source of public keys and has priority over created accounts.
Plan is to run on clearnet, but be Tor friendly - no javascript, no cookies, etc. It is all public, of course. But so is Reddit.
Does this seem like something that would be useful? Do you see any potential problems? Any suggestions for enhancements?
I'm not sure I've understood all your idea, but is seems to be just a pastebin for public keys ?
And I know it's a classic issue and what I will say is a classic answer but: Reddit just use Markdown format who actually strip usless whitespaces, but using code tags fix that and display message like formated by the user