Fwd: Re: RE: Authentication workflow draft.

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From: "Akbar Hossain" <mail@akbarhossain.com>
To: "peter williams" <home_pw@msn.com>
Subject: Re: RE: Authentication workflow draft.
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:00:22 +0200


Perhaps a small variant of the delegated service as per foafssl.org
On 12 Apr 2011 18:03, "peter williams" <home_pw@msn.com> wrote:
> Yes, it's time for a restful web service (supported by https client  
> authn and SSL session management) that takes a base64 encode cert as  
> input, and returns YES/NOThe input parser should assume the worst:  
> strange CRLF or LR or CR, random header text, variable number of dashes,  
> missing final EOL, UTF header bytes, web friendly char sets or ascii -  
> so as to deal with the realty of "PEM encoding"
>Another variant would take a cert sha1 fingerprint, rather than the cert.
>-----Original Message-----
> From: public-xg-webid-request@w3.org  
> [mailto:public-xg-webid-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Kingsley Idehen
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 9:29 AM
> To: peter williams
> Cc: 'Andrei Sambra'; 'WebID XG'
> Subject: Re: Authentication workflow draft.
>On 4/12/11 12:14 PM, peter williams wrote:
>> This is relevant to me, as it means for each URI in the SAN, I do a  
>> uriburner query, which (remotely) looks for a cert:identity match for 1  
>> card at a time.
>>
>> Can sparql have multiple FROM lines? Perhaps?
>Yes, re. Virtuoso's SPARQL support.
>
>> Can the query be modified so Id know which URI matched, if one could  
>> specify multiple matches?
>Yes.
>I am guessing its time for a WebID verification service. Ditto email  
> verification service as spec'd by Toby a while back.
>--Regards,
>Kingsley IdehenPresident& CEO
> OpenLink Software
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