Best of luck to you; I'm all for web auth alternatives. However, I think you've got an uphill battle here. The usability concerns you raise and that your commenters raise are not ancillary to the key problem -- they *are* the key problem.
The set of secure systems is a subset of the usable systems. The usable systems are those designed with the capacities of their users considered foremost. On Oct 22, 2009 12:41 AM, "Henry Story" <[email protected]> wrote: Dear Android security group, We are organising a Social Web Camp, that will help make it very clear why having a global ssl keychain in the android platform, and implementing the keygen tag would open huge new horizons in social networking to your platform. You can have an initial idea on why this is needed by looking at how it is implemented in Fennec: http://blogs.sun.com/bblfish/entry/foaf_ssl_in_mozilla_s But this camp will go beyond the simple technical implementation details, to talk about business use cases, example applications, and more... I hope to see some of you there. Please invite friends and other groups that you think may be interested. ---- You are invited to the Social Web Camp, taking place in the Sun Microsystems Campus in Santa Clara on Monday November 2. It is organised by Henry Story of Sun and Daniel Appelquist of Vodafone, co-chair of the W3C Social Web Incubator. Entry is free. Imagine a world where everybody could participate easily in a distributed yet secure social web. In such a world people could place their photos, music, or other content on their web site and give access to some of it to their friends, or the friend of their friends (FOAF) some to their family, some to their colleagues, and of course have some be completely public. How can one do this without requiring every participant to create one login for each of their friends site? How does one do this in a distributed and flexible manner compatible with web architecture? What issues would need to be solved to make this possible? All topics related to the Social Web will be covered, in a bar-camp style. It will be broad and open to all. See the subjects up for discussuion on the wiki/registration page: http://barcamp.org/SocialWebCamp-Santa-Clara When: Monday, 2nd of November starting 9:00 am ( up to 5pm ) Where: The Auditorium at Sun's Campus, 4030 George Sellon Circle Santa Clara, 95054 California Please forward to interested parties, tweet, blog! Henry Story Social Web Architect Sun Microsystems Blogs: http://blogs.sun.com/bblfish
