On 5 February 2016 at 12:58, Martynas Jusevičius <martynas@graphity.org> wrote: > Question: why? Do we really need a new technology for this? > Actually a great question! It was a response to this thread, which was brainstorming alternatives. https://github.com/solid/solid/issues/22#issuecomment-176833835 As someone that has used WebID+TLS every day for several years I dont see a huge problem with it. I do think we can make better browsers tho, particularly the open source ones. > > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Melvin Carvalho > <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote: > > Alice wishes to authenticate on Bobs server. > > > > Alice sends her User: identity, and (optionally) a path to a "cookie". > The > > cookie is a resource that only Bobs server and Alice have access to. The > > contents of the resource are a typical cookie with unguessable string and > > expiry. > > Bob's server compares the string sent from the browser and the string in > the > > file. If they match access is granted. > > > > > > Any comments on this idea? >
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