Re: WebID Frustration

On 8/6/13 11:54 AM, Norman Gray wrote:
> Hugh and Kingsley, hello.
>
> On 2013 Aug 6, at 14:27, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>
>> In reality though, for your particular user profile I would encourage you to simply manually add insert the relations required by the WebID+TLS protocol into your existing profile, after you've generated an X.509 certificate using in-built OS utilities [1].
> I've just done this, prompted by your message, Hugh, and it was oddly easy, _with_ Kingsley's hints.  The following fills in a couple of elided steps.
>
>> 1. Create a Profile Document -- this gets you a Personal HTTP URI (or WebID) that denotes entity "You"
> I already have a FOAF file <http://nxg.me.uk/norman/>.  Tick!
>
>> 2. Generate an X.509 Certificate -- as part of the process, place your WebID in the SAN (Subject Alternative Name) slot
> I did that, using Kingsley's walkthrough of the OS X Certificate Assistant (within Keychain Access) at <https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/posts/62pFBxAm7Ev>.
>
> This took two goes, because I decided that I should create a certificate with CN "Norman Gray (WebID)", adding the "(WebID)" to avoid confusing myself.
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>> 3. Add a relation to your Profile Document that associates your WebID with the Public Key (exponent and modulus) from the Cert. generated in step #3.
> If you use OS X Keychain Access, then 'Get Info' on the certificate will show the exponent and modulus.  The wrinkle here is that the Get Info display names the modulus as 'Public Key' (which I suppose one could quibble with).
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> If you want to do it the hard way (as I had to do, to work out that that _was_ what they meant by 'Public Key'), then export the certificate as a .cer file, and
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>    % openssl x509 -inform DER -modulus -noout -in ~/Desktop/norman-webid.cer
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> I added this to my FOAF file with:
>
>      cert:key [
>          cert:exponent 65537;
>          cert:modulus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xsd:hexBinary;
>      ];
>
> I got the details of that from <http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebID>.
>
> Then I put it on the web.
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>> 4. Verify your WebID
> I went to <http://webid.turnguard.com/WebIDTestServer/> and clicked on 'OnlyWithCert'.  I was asked to trust the server (because its certificate wasn't signed by a CA), and to choose which certificate to use, and ... it worked.  That was with both Chrome and Safari.
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>> 5. Start authenticating against apps and services that support WebID+TLS based authentication.
> Right... where can I use this that _isn't_ just for testing, and will actually be (you know) useful?
>
> No, this isn't the route I'd suggest to my Mum, but getting her a by-hand WebID might be a little premature in any case.
>
> All the best,
>
> Norman
>
>
Norman,

Once you have a WebID, you can quickly verify it using a number of 
utilities that support the WebID+TLS authentication protocol:

1. http://id.myopenlink.net/ods/webid_demo.html
2. https://delicious.com/kidehen/webid -- for others .

Once you know you've successfully authenticated, you can then explore 
some apps and services that support WebID and the WebID+TLS 
authentication protocol:

1. http://web.ods.openlinksw.com/login.vsp?returnto=index.vsp -- an 
instance of ODS (OpenLink Data Spaces)
2. https://my-profile.eu/
3. http://rww.io
4. https://delicious.com/kidehen/webid_apps -- others.


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