Signing revisions in place

[Daniel Holth]

Jens Alfke wrote:
> I've been musing a bit about digital signatures on revisions. This is  
> a valuable feature in distributed development since it allows you to  
> trust the authorship of changes (assuming you have sufficient PKI that  
> you can reliably associate a public key with an identity.)
>   
...

I had a similar idea in February. It would be nice to have a non-forgeable "revision-created-by". http://marc.info/?l=mercurial&m=117030690804513&w=2 (or "all crypto all the time".)

I have a friend who needs any system he uses to support authentication 
with PKCS11 certificates and smartcards, but that would be a different 
feature than signatures in the revision.

- Daniel Holth