On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 01:42:33PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
On 03/01/2011 01:34 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
Without plauing with it yet myself, I blindly assumed Monkeysphere was usable for exactly this: use GPG web of trust to assure certificates.

yes, this is exactly the use case (though i'd call it the OpenPGP web of trust, if you want terminology nit-picking)

more specifically: TLS allows for RESTful secure identity handling - which helps save bandwidth as is is friendly to proxies and other caching.

note: TLS can be done without X.509.  the two are separable:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6091

(whether RFC 6091 is the way to go, or whether we should take the X.509-cert-as-dummy-public-key-carrier approach is a separate question)

Skimming first parts for RFC6091 it seems to me that it current mainstream web browsers cannot access a website assured using that protocol. Is that correct?

Could I persuade you to have a look at http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebID and say if that seems feasable to integrate with MonkeySphere?


 - Jonas

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