Re: WebID-ISSUE-64 (redirects): Redirects [WebID Spec]

On 25 Nov 2011, at 15:12, Peter Williams wrote:

>  
> The change of query in last week's spec design has put me out considerably, since I don't understand it yet - in the security sense. The change upset what I thought I understood for 2+ years...about the nature of this protocol, based on the previous query design. I had been basing assurance on properties you advocated as critical to the security logic, previously: inverse functional relations - that are now no longer present or dominate the security enforcement logic. It will take some time to settle down, as I understand the change. 
> 

cert:key is the inverse of cert:identity . So where cert:identity used to be functional, cert:key is inverseFunctional.

There are no semantic changes here, just notational ones.

Henry


Social Web Architect
http://bblfish.net/

Received on Friday, 25 November 2011 14:28:33 UTC