[Freedombox-discuss] Friendika

[Ing. Otto Marroquin]

On 07/13/2011 10:05 AM, Aitor Pazos wrote:
>   We have protocols for our needs, we just have to
> integrate them, because each one is good for different needs.
...
>   It's a matter of
> introducing some abstraction on top of them (akonadi already integrates almost
> all this kind of services) and integrating user management, permissions, etc.,
> and build the web interface on top of that abstraction.
I agree with you.   We urgently need structured abstraction layers
to guide all the "brainstorming" we have had and the brilliant ideas
from all over the world...

>>> WebID
>>> is an SSL infrastructure - which solves privacy issues at a cost of
>>> everybody being accountable to an SSL signing authority. There are other
>>> lesser technical issues, but this is the elephant in the room.
>>>
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> WebID uses SSL, but as far as I understand it doesn't rely in any CA. The
> certificates can be self-signed and they will work the same. It uses the
> private key installed in your PC (which might not be very convenient) and
> checks if it belongs to the public key (which you have copied sometime before)
> returned by the FOAF file. If they match, your friends server can be sure that
> you are who you claim to be
> ( http://www.w3.org/wiki/Foaf%2Bssl ). In this scheme it doesn't matter which
> the CA is.
>
> Aitor Pazos Ibarzabal
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