- From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 22:11:15 +0200
- To: Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@telecom-sudparis.eu>
- Cc: Andrei Sambra <andrei.sambra@gmail.com>, public-webid <public-webid@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAKaEYhKBtvvYoVofSKz1+fkWQQ_2Z7kGJsZAo-6W82ZuPTp3UA@mail.gmail.com>
On 27 August 2013 22:06, Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@telecom-sudparis.eu>wrote: > 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... :-/ > [[ 5.2.3.18. Preferred Key Server (String) This is a URI of a key server that the key holder prefers be used for updates. Note that keys with multiple User IDs can have a preferred key server for each User ID. Note also that since this is a URI, the key server can actually be a copy of the key retrieved by ftp, http, finger, etc. ]] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880 I was never sure what fetching by http meant here ... > > 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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