[foaf-protocols] generating certificates and trying out foaf+ssl

[Story Henry]

Even better! you can do all this in your browser. Bruno Harbulot had  
told me this some time ago, but I only just tried it now.

Go to Firefox Preferences, selected Advanced, then select Encryption.  
Click on View Certificates, and import the cert.pkcs file generated  
below.

The point your browser to the protected foaf https://www.pipian.com/rdf/tami/juliette-protected-location

You will first have to accept the server certificate and add it to  
your trusted certificates, then when the server selects the page,  
choose the certificate you just added to your store. You will then get  
to see Juliette's protected information in N3.


So this works out of the box with most browsers I would think. Clearly  
the user experience could be improoved. It would also be interesting  
to think about what a browser with an RDF store could do, in so far as  
it could have crawled your foaf files, and having found juliette's  
foaf and cert signature, trust the site without asking you?...

	Henry


Home page: http://bblfish.net/

On 9 Oct 2008, at 22:41, Story Henry wrote:

>
> I have placed a little program to generate and produce the foaf that
> needs to be added to one's foaf file in sommer.dev.java.net . It is in
> the misc/FoafServer directory
>
> Run it like this:
>
> $ ant jar   #make sure your JAVA_HOME is set to java 6
>
> $ java -cp dist/FoafServer.jar
> net.java.dev.sommer.foafserver.utils.GenerateKey -uri http://bblfish.net/people/henry/card#me
>  -pass hell0

> [snip]
>
> The foaf there can be added to your foaf file, and then you can query
> Juliette's protected foaf
>
> $ java -cp dist/FoafServer.jar -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=cert.pkcs -
> Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword=hell0 -
> Djavax.net.ssl.keyStoreType=PKCS12
> net.java.dev.sommer.foafserver.utils.TestGet https://www.pipian.com/rdf/tami/juliette-protected-location