Re: WebID discussion in Debian

On 18 May 2013, at 19:31, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:

> Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu> writes:
> 
>> In the following posts on the Debian list, Russ Allbery has challenged
>> the security of WebID + TLS for authentication.
> 
> I should probably add a quick comment: I didn't intend to challenge the
> security in general so much as point out one of the assumptions in the
> security, namely that it still assumes that you have some external method
> of validating TLS certificates for servers.  I suspect that many people
> are happy with that assumption.  This is only an issue if one doesn't want
> to trust the normal mechanisms for validating TLS certificates (or DANE).

yes, but then you can use Tor's .onion or i2p's .garlic urls. I think they don't 
require DNS. It's on my roadmap to look at that. If people want to play
with that please send us feedback.

Henry


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