On Fri, 3 Jun 2016 at 17:11 Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote: > On 3 Jun 2016, at 07:51, Timothy Holborn <timothy.holborn@gmail.com> > wrote: > > What about extending the WebID undertaking to look at WebID-DHT - or > webDHT within the WebID group. > > > As I understand the method of uising DHTs URLs for the keys is compatible > with WebID, and even > WebID-TLS. Actually I have looked at the different ways it can be made > compatible with LDP > > https://github.com/read-write-web/SoLiD/wiki/Storing-an-Apps-Public-Key > > It would of course make implementations easier if the crypto ontologies > were agreed on in a wider > community and standardised, though of course this is opposed by the usual > people in the W3C. > Still with the Blockchain workshop coming up we may soon have a lot more > cryptographers on board. > > Henry > > I think if a DHT chain was distributed within a social-context, it may be possible to produce something that has the same level of decentralised trust to block-chain alternatives. point here, is to use human agreements rather than machine based ones to produce the WoT method. > > TimH. > > >
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