Re: [guardian-dev] WOT and Authentication Research

2012-12-18 Thread Patrick Baxter
Thanks for the response! I'm glad you have similar interests in this. I have some responses inline: On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 11:45 PM, elijah wrote: > If I read correctly, a few of your main points are: > > (1) We need well defined and expanded trust metrics > (2) Everything would be better if we

Re: WOT and Authentication Research

2012-12-05 Thread Patrick Baxter
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > > Not sure I've grokked everything in this thread, but some thoughts. > I'm working on the TL;DR version :). > Tying a key to a 'domain' (aka URI) is something that can be done already > using linked data. > > I do so on my home page alread

Re: [guardian-dev] WOT and Authentication Research

2012-12-03 Thread Patrick Baxter
Yup, Sovereign Keys is awesome. I hadn't looked it up since thinking more about the importance of having a single mapping but on a quick re-read I understand it as follows: Sovereign keys has a very strict requirement for changing this mapping as domain names should. ie. Only a key revocation can

WOT and Authentication Research

2012-12-01 Thread Patrick Baxter
lop some sort of community consensus around best practices for authentication infrastructure and some of this is research that still needs exploring, thinking, and results. I am a new grad student at UCSB and interned for the Guardian Project this past summer. I have been interested in authenticatio