- From: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 01:21:03 +0200
- To: Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca>
- Cc: public-lod@w3.org
On 7 Aug 2013, at 01:02, Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca> wrote: > On 08/06/2013 01:37 PM, Hugh Glaser wrote: >> Well, RWW.IO looked exciting, so I decided to start with it. >> And it seemed a good idea to have an account, so I decided I would finally create a WebID login - I know that lots of people think that this is the Way Ahead. >> I have a foaf file (actually more than one), and trawling the web, it seems that I if I have a foaf file I can use it for WebID. >> I certainly don't want to create it on some other site - I need another account like I need a hole in the head - in fact, that is what is meant to be good about WebID! >> Surely it isn't "Just one last new account". >> >> Anyway, you can guess that a while later I still don't seem to have managed it. >> I have read any number of pages that give me "simple" guides to doing stuff, with links to things that should help, etc. (often dead). >> I confess that I was definitely looking for the easiest way - for example, downloading a program to run just doesn't seem the sort of thing I want to do for something that is meant to be simple. >> Sorry if that all sounds provocative, but I am a bit frustrated! >> >> So have I missed something here? >> Is there really not a page that will really work for me? >> I'm using Safari on a Mac, by the way. >> And I'm trying to login in to https://hugh.rww.io >> >> Best >> Hugh > > Just dropping this here for anyone that finds it useful. > > The following will get you a public key that you can use in your WebID profile, a certificate that you can use to digitally sign your emails as well as to authenticate from your Web browser: > > Create a public/private key as you would to SSH to networks: > > $ ssh-keygen > > Add your URI and email in openssl.cnf, then create the certificate using your private key from above. Import from your email client: > > $ openssl req -x509 -new -config openssl.cnf -days 36500 -key id_rsa -out id_rsa.crt > > Export to PKCS #12 and import from your browser: > > $ openssl pkcs12 -export -in id_rsa.crt -inkey id_rsa -out id_rsa.p12 > > Copy/paste certificate signature value into your WebID profile. Thanks Sarven. We should add the above to a HOWTO, and add the following perhaps. Just add use this as a pattern: @prefix cert: <http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/cert#> . ?webid cert:key [ cert:modulus "..."^^xsd:hexBinary; cert:exponent 65537 ] . # replace number with actual value as described in https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/WebID/raw-file/tip/spec/tls-respec.html#publishing-the-certificate-data-in-a-webid-profile-document Where would be a good place to put this? We used to have this: http://www.w3.org/wiki/Foaf%2Bssl/HOWTO But I think it would be good to move it to an official wiki spot on our Community wiki. Henry > > -Sarven > http://csarven.ca/#i > Social Web Architect http://bblfish.net/
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