Re: Releasing RWW.IO

On 3 May 2014 10:08, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> wrote:

> Now I have tried it out as well including the micro-blogging.
>

Awesome.  I typed your name "A n d e r" into the channel finder and your
webid came up after about 3 letters.  I'm now following you.


> It was cool with one exception, TLS CCA (Client Certificate Authentication)
>
> Logging in to http://cimba.co required me to select certificate twice and
> from a pretty long list of non-WebID certificates.
>
> Unless W3C gets their act together and creates a web-compliant replacement
> for TLS CCA, WebID won't ever catch on.  I have no faith in W3C for taking
> any action on this since not even the requirements have ever been
> discussed.
> TLS is a sacred cow.
>

I think there's a slight distinction between WebID and WebID+TLS.

WebID itself is independent of the auth mechanism.

One hope was that mozilla labs would help with the UX, as below.

http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/identity-in-the-browser-firefox/


> Fortunately Google hadn't any problems slaughtering this poor creature
> when they started their U2F project which have created a hype I haven't
> seen before during my 15Y+ in the "id-business".  It didn't take an
> eternity either.
>
> Anders
> grumpy old fart with a mission
>
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