Decentralized Web without Decentralized Authentication?

The Decentralized Web requires Decentralized Authentication, right?

WebID-TLS have the basics but fails UI-wise due to in its inability separating the
certificates that actually are intended for usage with WebID-TLS. Most other
authentication-schemes also operate on the application-level which has several
implementation-advantages.

Does OpenID qualify?
IMO, OpenID doesn't offer a reasonable user-experience unless the browser in some
way lists the actual user's IdP-alternatives.  Is this maybe already implemented?
If not, I would say that the fully decentralized web so far remains vapor-ware.

Is there another alternative?  Yes, using WebID-TLS certificates but architecting
the solution like the FIDO/Google U2F scheme (JSON-based challenge-response).
Or is Google the only party who can do things like that?

Cheers,
Anders

Received on Friday, 18 July 2014 08:47:58 UTC