- From: Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@telecom-sudparis.eu>
- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 22:06:24 +0200
- To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>, Andrei Sambra <andrei.sambra@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-webid <public-webid@w3.org>
Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> writes: > On 27 August 2013 21:04, Andrei Sambra <andrei.sambra@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I think the main topic here is WebID discovery by embedding a triple >> pointing to a WebID inside a GPG key. You can also consider it as an >> alternative authentication method, specific to GPG's web of trust, since >> you would use GPG keys instead of certificates. It is very similar to >> WebID-TLS, where your public key (which is published on a key repository) >> contains a pointer to your WebID profile, and your profile document >> contains an RDF representation of the public key. >> > > Just set the keyserver field to be your profile. IIRC, it's a little known > fact that GPG lets you do that ... > It would be much easier to access, but as Jonas pointed out it is note very convenient to reuse a field that has a function, to do something else. I think what we'd need here really, is to use OpenPGP notations (RFC 4880), which seems to be a way to extend the OpenPGP pubkey with metadata... but I can't really figure out yet if this is really used anywhere... :-/ Hth, Best regards, -- Olivier BERGER http://www-public.telecom-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8 Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France)
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