Re: Cert Ontology and WebKeys (Re: WebID History - is also: Webid Editor/Author issue)

On 3 June 2013 13:16, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:

>  On 6/3/13 3:26 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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>  WebKeys has some significant advantages to the cert ontology in many
> ways, as the cert ontology only does auth, but the webkeys ontology does
> auth / signing / encryption / verification and lays the way for payments.
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> Cert only allows a subset of keys, such as RSA (indeed RSA is the only
> implemented key in WebID+TLS), webkeys allows any key, including DSA,
> Elliptic curve etc.
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> Webkeys allows any type of profile, including FOAF, schema.org, open
> graph protocol etc. whereas cert is tied to FOAF.
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>  Webkeys allows associating a key with an account, whereas cert only
> associates a key with a FOAF agent.
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>  These points have been brought up in the community group and you have
> each argued against them, and made it clear that you were opposed.  That's
> why manu did not join the xg, and has made an independent work.
>
>  That all said, done is done, and it would be good to see things working
> together now.
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> WebKeys is a great compliment to WebID. In a nutshell, having the ability
> to exploit WebID by having it loosely coupled to X.509 certificates is a
> major contribution to our collective WOT pursuit.
>

Kingsley, do you think implementations should start to adopt webkey as well
as the cert ontology?


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