Re: [pkng] WebID - RESTful Authentication for the Social Web

Leif Johansson <leifj@sunet.se> Wed, 13 October 2010 07:27 UTC

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Subject: Re: [pkng] WebID - RESTful Authentication for the Social Web
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On 10/12/2010 10:41 PM, Henry Story wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
>   just before closing down this mailing list you may be interested in WebID (aka foaf+ssl) which
> uses PKI based TLS in a decentralised manner without changing anything to the TLS communication, but
> by shifting the authentication algorithm server side. This allows one to use non CA signed certificates to log in globally. Trust is very flexible in this system, and is built on a web of published relationships in the Linked Data network.
> 
> There is quite a lot of detailed information here:
> 
>    http://esw.w3.org/Foaf%2Bssl

Does it support anything that looks like signing or is it just
authentication?

	Cheers Leif
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