Re: JavaScript/Node.js WebID Provider

On 17 July 2014 11:18, Adrian Gschwend <ktk@netlabs.org> wrote:

> Hi group,
>
> Within a University internal project I was involved in, my colleague
> wrote a pure JavaScript WebID Provider.
>
> From the Readme:
>
> --
> WebIDP is an identity provider for generating WebIDs. It has been
> developed by BFH - Bern University of Applied Sciences as a part of a
> research project called CV3.0.
>
> WebIDP is a server application written in JavaScript, running in a
> node.js-environment providing a HTML5-frontend for user interaction. The
> interface allows the user to generate one or many WebID(s) after a
> successful authentication to a directory service (currently only LDAP is
> supported).
>
> After generation of a WebID, the user can then use this WebID to log in
> at WebID-enabled services or to the WebIDP itself in order to manage all
> of his WebIDs. One or many WebIDs can be specified as
> administrator-WebIDs, enabling their users to manage all WebIDs of the
> server.
> --
>
> Unlike other projects I'm aware of the whole certificate generation is
> pure JS, kudos to the Payswarm guys for helping out!
>
> Grab the source here:
>
> https://github.com/iam-ictm/webidp
>
> Pull-requests are welcome, there is still stuff we want to do/need to
> fix but it's a start :)
>

Very nice!


>
> regards
>
> Adrian
>
> --
> Adrian Gschwend
> @ netlabs.org
>
> ktk [a t] netlabs.org
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