- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:09:13 -0400
- To: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- CC: Ben Laurie <benl@google.com>, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>, public-webid <public-webid@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <50644FF9.3030800@openlinksw.com>
On 9/27/12 6:14 AM, Henry Story wrote: > No the WebID is in the Certificate hidden from the user. The browser > presents you with the Common Name (CN) of the Distinguished Name. You should > therefore make the CN be something easy to identify eg: > > benl@google.com for your current work certificate > benl@apache.org since you are a founding director of Apache > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Laurie ) > > Or whatever fits into a CN field. In fact your certificate provider > should help you make the right choice. See examples of what Henry states above at: 1. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11096946/multiple-certs-are-fine-1.png -- keystore view 2. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11096946/multiple-certs-are-fine-2.png -- keystore UI presented in response to authentication challenge 3. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11096946/specific-certificate-view-showing-DN-CN-data.png -- specific certificate snapshot 4. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11096946/specific-certificate-view-showing-DN-CN-data-2.png -- remaining part of cert. snapshot 5. http://id.myopenlink.net/about/id/entity/http/www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen -- WebID used to watermark for this particular certificate 6. http://id.myopenlink.net/about/id/entity/http/www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen#cert11680ABA333FAE0B2AC974A5009B6175C45A5045 -- URI that resolves to my profile hosted x.509 certificate claims mirror . It's all about the data exposed by Web-scale Linked Data graphs, courtesy of de-referencable URIs :-) -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Founder & CEO OpenLink Software Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen
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