[hinkley]

I got so much shit for building an API that would not answer any queries about the signed documents until the signature had been verified. Trying to speed up processing and routing by making decisions before the authenticity of the data has been verified is a fool’s errand and false economy. You can’t make decisions based on what might be lies, and malicious ones at that. I spent a lot of time making the signature checks faster rather than buckling and making the signatures a joke.