Sunday, June 5, 2016

Links about Client Side Certificates for SOLiD

On May 16th  I had a discussion with Melvin Carvalho about client side certificates on https://gitter.im/linkeddata/chat . I was not sure what they were, so I dug up some papers to try to understand it. I found "Using RDF Metadata to Enable Access Control on the Social Semantic Web" [1] and "FOAF+SSL: RESTful Authentication for the Social Web" [2]. I was trying to understand how Node SOLID Server [3] was set up because I was getting authentication an authorization errors.

Fortunately, I just found a document called "Client Side certificates" [4] by Tim Berners-Lee and a spec called "WebID-TLS" [5] .

 [1] http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2009/Papers/ISWC/rdf-access-control/paper.pdf
 [2] http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2009/Papers/SPOT/foaf-ssl-spot2009.pdf
 [3] https://github.com/solid/node-solid-server
 [4] https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Security-ClientCerts.html
 [5] https://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/spec/tls/

1 comment:

  1. Also note that mentioned in client side certificates is deprecated [1]. Perhaps we can fight for it as timbl suggests.
    [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/keygen

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