• Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    If by HTTP signature you mean an SSL certificate signed by an authority, those do not present a burden for bots to obtain any longer.

    • irelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      I do not, ActivityPub uses HTTP signatures to make sure messages and requests from other servers are legit,

      Essentially, it adds a “signature” header which contains a link to a users public key, a list of headers in the message and a signed hash of all the headers and the request.

      There’s a better explaination here: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/security/

      A delicated bot to scrape ActivityPub posts is possible, but generic bots shouldn’t work. If a delicated bot is made, people can block its keys or server anyway.