Throughout our identity document series, we have assumed that we were designing for domain hosting. This does not mean that we discard a highly useful movement towards peer-to-peer (or P2P) networking. Allow us to illuminate how we can see these approaches merge.
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Say "little" with a thick tongue, and it sounds like "lill'". That is how we constructed the name LillyDAP, as a nickname for our Little LDAP library. A completely new approach to the protocol, approaching it as a semantically rich data access protocol, rather than a database language.
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Our work on security makes us deal with a lot of ASN.1 data, mostly encoded as DER. We designed the Quick DER library to have a commercial-grade tool to manipulate it... except that it is released in open source.
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Mail was designed as a gullable system, and this is generally abused by spammers. Fighting spam is a balancing act between failures to accept and reject. With the more refined identity model of the IdentityHub, we have new tools to strike a better balance.
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OpenPGP is a powerful technology for signing and encryption, because it does not imply a stiffling key infrastructure. Instead, it uses a Web Of Trust that is flexible... and complicating for new users. We now introduce an approach to securely use OpenPGP without even that.
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