The idea is simply to provide passive, sign-only certificates for sites that don't need encryption.
An online newspaper is a great example case. They serve mostly static content and could easily sign their static pages.
Advantages -saves crypto overhead -untrusted third party can do hosting
Disadvantages -only works for static content-- RichardT, Oct 01 2011 code signing certificates http://www.google.c...igning+certificatesGoogle search shows many results [RichardT, Oct 02 2011] html signing certificates ? http://www.google.c...signing+certificateNo relevant results found, mostly stuff about doing SSL without getting a certificate from verisign etc [RichardT, Oct 02 2011] One day in the future, everything will be digitally signed. It's just one of those things that makes sense.-- zen_tom, Oct 03 2011 random, halfbakery