Fwd: Linked Data Signatures spec published

FYI:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
Date: 16 January 2015 at 06:03
Subject: Linked Data Signatures spec published
To: Web Payments <public-webpayments@w3.org>, Credentials Community Group <
public-credentials@w3.org>


Hi all,

The Linked Data Signatures specification has been extracted from the old
Secure Messaging specification. This was done after it became fairly
clear that most of the people we were showing the specification to
didn't really care about the encryption portions (which we'll extract
into a separate specification later on). We have also received quite a
bit of strong push-back on the "Secure Messaging" name, thus the
re-branding.

For those new to the discussion, in order to do digital
signatures in JSON-LD, we need two specs and a vocabulary:

1. The RDF Dataset Normalization spec
2. The Linked Data Signatures spec
3. The Security vocabulary

#2 was a part of the Secure Messaging spec until now. It'll live on its
own from now on. Here's a very rough draft:

https://web-payments.org/specs/source/ld-signatures/

This spec has a preliminary implementation here:

https://github.com/digitalbazaar/jsonld-signatures

and an npm and bower package:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/jsonld-signatures

-- manu

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