Re: Browser ID, WebID & URLs

On 7/18/11 6:38 PM, Henry Story wrote:
> at the cost of giving out e-mail addresses you can be spammed with, and very little information that they can get about you directly, reducing the usability a lot. This means that a lot of applicatons will end up requiring WebID anyway.
Remember, we already have S/MIME + WebID. Net effect, SPAM receives a 
serious blow!

WebID bearing Certs. are used for Digital Signatures attached to emails. 
Cert generation is one-click. "You" are the CA.

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Received on Monday, 18 July 2011 17:49:32 UTC