Re: google proposing to deprecate KEYGEN

I’ve already started work (this spring) on an alternative auth protocol based on WebID, which uses the new WebCrypto API. You can read about it here [0].

It’s currently implemented in gold [1], one of the SoLiD servers.

—Andrei

[0] https://github.com/linkeddata/SoLiD#webid-rsa <https://github.com/linkeddata/SoLiD#webid-rsa>
[1] https://github.com/linkeddata/gold <https://github.com/linkeddata/gold>
> On Jul 31, 2015, at 8:51 AM, Cory Sabol <cssabol@uncg.edu> wrote:
> 
> It would be interesting to conduct some work on that. WebID with some alternative crypto APIs.
> 
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 6:42 AM, Andreas Kuckartz <a.kuckartz@ping.de <mailto:a.kuckartz@ping.de>> wrote:
> Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> > Keygen doesn't define existence of WebID-TLS. It just offered a
> > perceived convenience.
> 
> Can WebID-TLS be based on the Web Cryptography API instead?
> 
> What would be the advantages and disadvantages?
> 
> Cheers,
> Andreas
> 
> 
> 
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> --
> Regards,
> 
> -Cory Sabol
> cssabol@uncg.edu <mailto:cssabol@uncg.edu>
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