- From: Stian Soiland-Reyes <soiland-reyes@cs.manchester.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:26:52 +0000
- To: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
Excerpts from Binyamin's message of 2015-12-12 19:50:31 +0000: > Currently many apps uses SSO (Single sign-on, > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_sign-on) with different APIs and > protocols. It still requires server-side authentications. > Browsers/OSs has to validate the main personal identification data > (email/phone). Share the data after user acceptation similar to other APIs > like Geolocation API (demo http://html5demos.com/geo). > I am only wondering if it in any way could be used in save way as a Signin > authentication? Maybe by uses some encrypted validation key? You'll probably be interested to read about WebID: http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/spec/ FOAF+SSL is probably also relevant: http://www.w3.org/wiki/Foaf+ssl and obviously OAuth: http://oauth.net/ -- Stian Soiland-Reyes, eScience Lab School of Computer Science The University of Manchester http://soiland-reyes.com/stian/work/ http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718
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