[foaf-protocols] local password - was WebID pre-alpha specification (uses RDFa)

[Toby Inkster]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:38:11 +0100
Nathan <nathan at webr3.org> wrote:

> The other alternative is for somebody else to write it up (even if
> it's people here), and possibly combine it with (a probably needed)
> 3rd party email verification service (which could sign the address
> and provide a lookup to prove it's been validated - why every single
> site has to repeat this process is beyond me).

Here was an idea for an e-mail verification service a few months ago:

http://lists.foaf-project.org/pipermail/foaf-protocols/2010-March/001898.html

Essentially a single service does the whole
click-this-link-to-confirm-your-email-address dance, and after that
publishes a single triple:

	<your webid> foaf:mbox_sha1sum "hash123456" .

In an RDF file at:

	http://theirservice.example.com/data/hash123456

You can then, in your FOAF file include:

	<#me> foaf:mbox <mailto:me at example.net> .
	<mailto:me at example.net> rdfs:seeAlso
	      <http://theirservice.example.com/data/hash123456> .

Then somebody wanting to use your email address could double check that
it belonged to you by following the seeAlso link, assuming of course
that they trusted the theirservice.example.com service provider!

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Toby A Inkster
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