Re: WebID and Signed Emails

On 11/4/10 6:48 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> On 4 November 2010 23:24, Kingsley Idehen<kidehen@openlinksw.com>  wrote:
>> On 11/4/10 5:09 PM, Mischa Tuffield wrote:
>>
>> Drawing an analogy, this email is signed, I am not signed, the email has a
>> uri identifying the person which sent, and they are quite different.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Mischa *2 [cents|pence] worth
>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Nathan
>>>
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>> Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.12 (Darwin)
>>
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>> KSXHqMMUBiHNJyc8asFyfA9+CGMOM3r3b/kmF5KNPmg49RB9bon5Jlb5fiCvBr5J
>> TXYk+5s7iFpLENzhWhDJhCpIX8ZC/HBXDJ/Vpkjijesa3W+5dL/G+4RHYXCpUTi1
>> Rwc6FA57pZTb1NnKgmEdK6jCO4sZBhdkyCKaWwlvK1zig07XdP1/CVmblGWpaSuc
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>> RAU6etCOFuCEo46H+i0T5yJfUz0OhwjYNBSIqIZq/FDpt9rkCKNavXIhRmazKCoI
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>> =Q5HZ
>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>>
>>
>> Misca,
>>
>> Nice of you to bring this up, I've changed topic heading accordingly.
>>
>> Now imagine if your signature also included your WebID. Then my email client
>> would verify your mails using the WebID protocol :-)
>>
>> Another example of the power of Linked Data!
> Do you even need your WebID in your signature?

No, not really. Got wires a little crossed, too much multi tasking 
today, even by my standards :-)

I should be able to verify the sender of the a signed email by verifying 
the public key in my possession which boils down to S/MIME + WebID 
tweak. Thus, removing CA dependency by allowing self-signed certs.
> What if your WebID pointed to your PGP credentials?

That too, and will ultimately be on of the options, I suspect.


Kingsley
>> --
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Kingsley Idehen	
>> President&  CEO
>> OpenLink Software
>> Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
>> Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
>> Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
>>
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Regards,

Kingsley Idehen	
President&  CEO
OpenLink Software
Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen

Received on Thursday, 4 November 2010 23:32:43 UTC