Now available on the Waterken Inc. site is a specification and implementation for a new HTTP extension, HTTPSY.
HTTPSY provides decentralized, peer-to-peer authentication for the WWW. For those familiar with E <http://www.erights.org/>, HTTPSY is feature equivalent to E's VatTP + VLS. HTTPSY is primarily aimed at being a secure substrate for web services, but can also be used for secure web surfing. Both httpsy:// and E's cap:// are implementations of what I have named YURLs. You can read about the concepts behind YURLs at: http://www.waterken.com/dev/YURL/ The httpsy:// specification is at: http://www.waterken.com/dev/YURL/httpsy/ There is a java.net.URL implementation of httpsy:// at: http://www.waterken.com/dev/URL/ The Waterken Inc. site is running the Waterken Server, which implements the server side of httpsy://. Sue Butler has built a simple WWW browser which you can use to surf the Waterken Inc. site over httpsy://. The browser is at: http://www.waterken.com/dev/Browser/ The default bookmarks file for the browser provides an httpsy:// link to the Waterken Inc. site. The Waterken Browser implements a Pet Name system for trust relationship management. See: http://www.waterken.com/dev/YURL/Name/ I believe httpsy:// + a Pet Name system solves many of the problems with https:// that have recently been highlighted on this mailing list. Tyler -- The union of REST and capability-based security: http://www.waterken.com/dev/Web/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
