[foaf-protocols] WebID and CryptoStick

[Dan Brickley]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Henry Story <henry.story at gmail.com> wrote:
> I met Jan Suhr (BCCed here) at the Berlin CCC Congress this Xmas where he gave a presentation of the following crypto stick.
>
> The project for the drivers is open source as I understand
> https://www.privacyfoundation.de/wiki/CryptoStickSoftwareEn
>
> Jan just told me that one can get the Subject Alternative Name set on it for the X509 certificate that comes with the private key. This would give a whole new layer of security to a WebID, and I am sure something a lot of people will be interested in playing with.
>
> Hopefully Jan will join the mailing list here and the conversation. But I did not want to presume of it. You can contact him via
> https://www.awxcnx.de/jansuhr.msg

Lots of possibilities with these things, especially when the prices drop.

I'm wondering what might be done from HTML/Javascript apps running off
the stick.

Have you seen http://tiddlywiki.com/?

"TiddlyWiki is a single html file which has all the characteristics of
a wiki - including all of the content, the functionality (including
editing, saving, tagging and searching) and the style sheet. Because
it's a single file, it's very portable - you can email it, put it on a
web server or share it via a USB stick."

"You can save changes to local TiddlyWiki files with modern versions
of FireFox, Opera, InternetExplorer, Safari, Chrome and Camino - click
here for browser version details"

They do something magic with file: URIs, that's all I remember of the
'save' machinery...

Dan