Also see `navigator.id` in FX: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/id
Sam On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 at 12:30 Stian Soiland-Reyes < soiland-re...@cs.manchester.ac.uk> wrote: > Excerpts from Binyamin's message of 2015-12-12 19:50:31 +0000: > > Currently many apps uses SSO (Single sign-on, > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_sign-on) with different APIs and > > protocols. It still requires server-side authentications. > > Browsers/OSs has to validate the main personal identification data > > (email/phone). Share the data after user acceptation similar to other > APIs > > like Geolocation API (demo http://html5demos.com/geo). > > I am only wondering if it in any way could be used in save way as a > Signin > > authentication? Maybe by uses some encrypted validation key? > > You'll probably be interested to read about WebID: > > http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/spec/ > > FOAF+SSL is probably also relevant: > > http://www.w3.org/wiki/Foaf+ssl > > and obviously OAuth: > > http://oauth.net/ > > > -- > Stian Soiland-Reyes, eScience Lab > School of Computer Science > The University of Manchester > http://soiland-reyes.com/stian/work/ > http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718 > >
