- From: Nathan <nathan@webr3.org>
- Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:32:11 +0000
- To: WebID Incubator Group WG <public-xg-webid@w3.org>
WebID Incubator Group Issue Tracker wrote: > WebID-ISSUE-20: Portable and Hosted Certificates [WebID Spec] > > http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/track/issues/20 > > Raised by: Nathan Rixham > On product: WebID Spec > > > The WebID protocol currently requires the use of X.509v3 certificates, those certificates need to be stored on the client side and sent as part of the TLS authentication process. > > However, provision is made in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) Extensions RFC [1] for certificates to be passed by URL, rather than value, by using the "Client Certificate URLs" feature [2]. > > It should be noted that this feature is already standardized and covers most of the WebID protocol in a well defined manner, indeed it has almost all the key elements of "WebID". > > [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4366 > [2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4366#section-3.3 slightly related to ISSUE-6 : http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/track/issues/6
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