ISSUE-16: Easy cross-browser certificate transfer
Easy cross-browser certificate transfer
- State:
- RAISED
- Product:
- User Interface/Browsers
- Raised by:
- Stéphane Corlosquet
- Opened on:
- 2011-01-31
- Description:
- Issue raised by Manu Sporny at https://github.com/webid-community/webid-spec/issues#issue/4
One of the strongest arguments against technologies like WebID is the concern of transferring certificates from one browser to the next. There have been studies performed on this particular issue and both creating one-certificate-per-browser and having to copy certificates across browsers have been met with very strong usability concerns.
There is a protocol that has been outlined by Ben Laurie for storing private keys on remote servers:
http://www.links.org/files/nigori/nigori-protocol-01.html
We may want to consider inclusion of this technology into the specification as it would certainly make the Javascript implementations of WebID more attractive to those that have concerns about cross-browser certificate transfer.
- Related Actions Items:
- No related actions
- Related emails:
- RE: WebID-ISSUE-16: Easy cross-browser certificate transfer (from home_pw@msn.com on 2011-01-31)
- Re: WebID-ISSUE-16: Easy cross-browser certificate transfer (from yngve@opera.com on 2011-01-31)
- Re: WebID-ISSUE-16: Easy cross-browser certificate transfer (from henry.story@bblfish.net on 2011-01-31)
- Re: WebID-ISSUE-16: Easy cross-browser certificate transfer (from scorlosquet@gmail.com on 2011-01-31)
- WebID-ISSUE-16: Easy cross-browser certificate transfer (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2011-01-31)
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