Re: WebID proxy?

On 20 July 2012 16:59, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:

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> On 20 Jul 2012, at 15:26, elf Pavlik wrote:
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> > Hello,
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> > Hearing lately some discussions on delegation and proxies, I started
> thinking about proxy which would enable me to use WebID without need to
> have any private keys on client machine I may happen to use. One could use
> some other system - possibly pass phrase based - for authentication and
> than proxy would hold some secondary private key, which could also have
> more restricted permissions on chosen services.
> >
> > I look here for more flexibility in case someone wants to use friends
> computer just to RSVP to an event or similar cases with rather low security
> requirements...
>
> Use OpenId with one time passwords perhaps?
>

Sure WebID can fall back to OpenID, BrowserID, SAML, username/password etc.

Henry actually built a delegated proxy that lets you log in to a system the
does not have HTTPS.  That could easily be extended to username/pw if there
was demand for it.


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> Henry
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> >
> > Cheers!
> > ~ elf Pavlik ~
> >
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