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Signed Pings

Over the last few years, the explosive growth in online blogging (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog) usage has unfortunately seen a parallel growth in misuse from spam blogs (splogs) to claiming someone else’s content as their own. 

VeriSign is collaborating with blog producers, aggregators, developers, and consumers to help define and develop a framework to reduce some of these misuses. The framework enables everyone (Consumers, readers, aggregators, and such) to authenticate (know to some level of certainty) the blog publisher (and other intermediaries in the network if they have added to/modified the feed).

For more information, visit the SignedPing wiki.