Re: WEbID Todos from Ben Laurie on 2012-10-08 (public-webid@w3.org from October 2012)

From: Ben Laurie <benl@google.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 10:36:39 +0100
To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
Cc: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>, "public-webid@w3.org" <public-webid@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABrd9SQr-fewUn137SAb2H3nt7bxApji1n6BqZ_8WDOBLqGbYQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 6 October 2012 08:48, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
> WebID is actually 2 specs.
>
> 1. The first part is authentication via your public key which is a IFP of
> your identity.  In certain circumstances (ie caching, just like
> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys ) you can be done here and it operates like SSH.
>
> (1) I think solves the unlinkability problem

How? Clearly the public key makes all authentications that use it linkable.

Received on Monday, 8 October 2012 09:37:07 UTC