Re: google proposing to deprecate KEYGEN

On 4 August 2015 at 16:01, Henry Story <henry.story@co-operating.systems>
wrote:

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> > On 30 Jul 2015, at 16:44, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>
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> > On 2015-07-30 16:32, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> >> :(
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> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.dev.platform/pAUG2VQ6xfQ/FKX63BwOIwAJ
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> > Since none of the big users of client-side PKI have ever bothered with
> this crap
> > it won't be missed.   This signifies the (expected) end of WebID-TLS as
> well.
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> Not quite, as it depends on what happens in the TLS 3.0 group. But
> WebID-TLS can still
> work very well for server to server communication. It seems that in any
> case that is what
> is going to have to happen, as browser vendors seem to have lost their
> marbles somewhere
> along the way from Netscape to here.
>
> is it not the case that ​a phone can be a server?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.aksw.mssw&hl=en comes to
mind...

​lots of devices exist that could easily use a TLS cert. From TV's to
phones, servers and other internet enabled devices.

a browser is simply an app.  Web changes so very fast, if something works,
it seems to grow.  i was looking at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers the other day,
principally because i was thinking about root-cert support..

i wonder if anyones ever considered doing a remake of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb

tim.
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> Henry
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