Re: Getting Serious about WebID Bootstrap

Btw. this follows up on a discussion on the IETF DANE mailing list and the WebID lists, that relates to an IETF proposal to use store signatures in DNSSEC using DANE. In this last part I think I found a reasonable picture of how these can interact.

   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webid/2012Sep/0163.html


Henry

PS. Thanks to Kingsley for helping me use my WebID Certificate to sign e-mails


On 28 Sep 2012, at 13:36, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:

> All,
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> Bootstrapping anything on the Web requires technology implementer to use (dog-food) whatever technology they seek to promote to others. Thus, I would like to encourage every participant in the RWW and WebID community groups to make a best-effort to start signing emails, moving forward.
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> Naturally, these emails should be signed using an WebID watermarked X.509 certificate. Certificate generation choices include:
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> 1. Native generators that come with your desktop OS -- Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux all include such a utility
> 2. Certificate generators from WebID IdPs -- I have a list here: http://delicious.com/kidehen/webid+webid_idp (ping me if you have a generator that's unlisted) .
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> Over the last year or so, I've written a number of how-to guides [1] covering how to sign emails across all the major native email clients.
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> Once again, if we don't sign our emails we loose a simple opportunity to showcase the utility of WebIDs and the WebID authentication protocol. Being able to follow-your-nose from a WebID that watermarks an email senders certificate is a very simple utility showcase for both WebID and Linked Data.
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> We can do this!
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> Links:
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> 1. http://bit.ly/VTnxzz -- collection of G+ hosted howtos (for all the major native email clients) covering how to digitally sign emails .
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