foaf ssl: adding security to open distributed social networks

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foaf+ssl: adding security to open distributed social networks

For the " W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking ", taking place in Barcelona January 2009

Attending:

Henry Story

Contributors:

Bruno Harbulot Ian Jacobi Toby Inkster

Enthusiastic:

Melvin Carvalho

Semantic Web vocabularies such as foaf permit distributed hyperlinked social networks to exist. We would like to discuss a group of related ways we are exploring ( mailing list ) to add information and services protection to such distributed networks.

One major criticism of open networks is that they seem to have no way of protecting the personal information distributed on the web or limiting access to resources. Few people are willing to make all their personal information public, many would like large pieces to be protected, making it available only to a select group of agents. Giving access to information is very similar to giving access to services. There are many occasions when people would like services to only be accessible to members of a group, such as allowing only friends, family members, colleagues to post a blog, photo or comment on a site. How does one do this in a maximally flexible way, without requiring any central point of access control?

Using an intuition made popular by OpenID we show how one can tie a User Agent to a URI by proving that he ...

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