Toby Inkster wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 10:30:36 +0200
Thomas Roessler <t...@w3.org> wrote:
- What are the benefits of using one over the other in the cases
where they overlap?
One of the key FOAF+SSL benefits over OpenID is its RESTfulness.
I can request a FOAF+SSL-secured resource using curl or wget. A typical
OpenID exchange requires various redirections and form-filling, so
cannot easily be achieved using command-line tools like this.
This makes FOAF+SSL a more suitable authentication system for use-cases
where requests will be made by software agents rather than people -
e.g. securing a SPARQL endpoint or an API endpoint.
Further, you can guarantee every bit of information sent and received
whilst being identified is encrypted and forced to be over HTTP+TLS.
Those are two huge points that make the web RESTful, stateless and safe
(from a PID perspective) - not to be taken lightly.
Best,
Nathan
