[Freedombox-discuss] FOAF developers taking FreedomBox into their equation

[Melvin Carvalho]

On 10 March 2011 00:02, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 10:29:06PM +0000, Clint Adams wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 09:09:25PM +0100, Henry Story wrote:
>>>
>>>  I am also currently chairing the WebID incubator group at the W3C,   so
>>> if you have WebID questions don't hesitate to ping me, or join   the W3C
>>> mailing list and ping there.
>>
>>
>> I hope that in the long run we are going to want to rid ourselves of
>> any dependence on centralized DNS and SSL certificate authorities.
>> Is WebID going to have any features to facilitate this or are we going
>> to need to have a separate CA certificate for each client or server
>> certificate, and a bunch of out-of-band validation hacks to ensure
>> that these SSL certificates and FOAF profiles are actually owned
>> and controlled by the people we expect them to be?
>
> WebID rely on DNS, but do not require _centralized_ DNS.
>
> WebID use SSL certificates, but do not require _centralized_ certificate
> authorities, Actually, due to requiring an unusual additional hint, some
> centralized CA autorities including CAcert.org cannot currently provide
> WebID compatible certificates.

Traditionally we've always 'self signed' our WebID certificates.  So
there's no CA that needs to be in the loop.  In fact, I dont know of
any instance WebID has *ever* been used with a CA, but I suppose it is
possible too. :)

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