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07 Apr 09

Typing user name/passwords on cell phones is extreemly tedious. Here we show how identification & authentication can be done in two clicks. No URL to type in, no changes to the iPhone, just using bog standard SSL technology tied into a distributed global network of trust, which is known as foaf+ssl.

11 Feb 09

FOAF+SSL is an authentication and authorization protocol that links a Web ID to a public key to create a global, decentralized, distributed, and secure authentication system that functions with existing browsers.

Following on my previous post RDFAuth: sketch of a buzzword compliant authentication protocol, Toby Inkster came up with a brilliantly simple scheme that builds very neatly on top of the Secure Sockets Layer of https. I describe the protocol shortly here, and will describe an implementation of it in my next post.

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