[Freedombox-discuss] CCC Meeting Notes

Henry Story henry.story at bblfish.net
Wed Aug 17 11:44:06 UTC 2011


On 17 Aug 2011, at 13:29, ya knygar wrote:

>> The advantage of having WebIDs here is that people don't have to give out their e-mail addresses, btw. Needing to reveal those only when necessary. But that still requires building the infrastructure.
> yeah, but BrowserID as another example is also quite elegant and light
> approach, n-1.cc provides OpenID through email and it's proved like a
> pretty fine approach.
> Registration is anyway - tighten to the email for restoring and staff, now.
> +There should be self-hosted mail servers, anyway.
> As i'v said on conference - there are many sites that require mail to
> register .. and having proprietary Mail - would bring down all the
> afford, actually:)

A comparison between browser-id and webid is up here btw:

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/5406/what-are-the-main-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-webid-compared-to-browserid/5424

Henry


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