Re: Proposal - Personal Identity API

Excerpts from Binyamin's message of 2015-12-12 19:50:31 +0000:
> Currently many apps uses SSO (Single sign-on,
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_sign-on) with different APIs and
> protocols. It still requires server-side authentications.
> Browsers/OSs has to validate the main personal identification data
> (email/phone). Share the data after user acceptation similar to other APIs
> like Geolocation API (demo http://html5demos.com/geo).
> I am only wondering if it in any way could be used in save way as a Signin
> authentication? Maybe by uses some encrypted validation key?

You'll probably be interested to read about WebID:

http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/spec/

FOAF+SSL is probably also relevant:

http://www.w3.org/wiki/Foaf+ssl

and obviously OAuth:

http://oauth.net/


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Stian Soiland-Reyes, eScience Lab
School of Computer Science
The University of Manchester
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Received on Thursday, 17 December 2015 12:27:34 UTC