Re: Cert Ontology and WebKeys (Re: WebID History - is also: Webid Editor/Author issue)

On 6/3/13 3:26 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>
> WebKeys has some significant advantages to the cert ontology in many 
> ways, as the cert ontology only does auth, but the webkeys ontology 
> does auth / signing / encryption / verification and lays the way for 
> payments.
>
> Cert only allows a subset of keys, such as RSA (indeed RSA is the only 
> implemented key in WebID+TLS), webkeys allows any key, including DSA, 
> Elliptic curve etc.
>
> Webkeys allows any type of profile, including FOAF, schema.org 
> <http://schema.org>, open graph protocol etc. whereas cert is tied to 
> FOAF.
>
> Webkeys allows associating a key with an account, whereas cert only 
> associates a key with a FOAF agent.
>
> These points have been brought up in the community group and you have 
> each argued against them, and made it clear that you were opposed.  
> That's why manu did not join the xg, and has made an independent work.
>
> That all said, done is done, and it would be good to see things 
> working together now.

WebKeys is a great compliment to WebID. In a nutshell, having the 
ability to exploit WebID by having it loosely coupled to X.509 
certificates is a major contribution to our collective WOT pursuit.

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