- From: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:39:36 +0100
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: "Mo McRoberts" <Mo.McRoberts@bbc.co.uk>, Sergio Fernández <sergio.fernandez@fundacionctic.org>, "Dominik Tomaszuk" <ddooss@wp.pl>, "WebID Incubator Group WG" <public-xg-webid@w3.org>
The private key is there now: http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/cert there is a private key class and a private_exponent to match the public one. Henry On 23 Nov 2011, at 19:24, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > > On 2011-11 -22, at 04:51, Mo McRoberts wrote: >> In RSA, the modulus and exponent tend to be called 'n' and 'e', respectively, but some variant on 'modulus' and 'exponent' are fine *if* you ony want to store public keys (if you want to cover private keys -- though I'm not sure why you would -[...] > > If you are making an ontology for keys, I feel it should include private keys. Be complete. > There is a lot of call for standards for private data, as well as public. > There is W3C work on management of credentials. > I might want also to do things like use RDF as an intermediate form > in converting identities between SSL and SSH worlds for example. > > Tim > > Social Web Architect http://bblfish.net/
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