Much of the work in our project centers around open protocols. We use as much of what we find as is, but new ideas sometimes call for new protocols, and the design of these is a bit of a roller-coaster ride. KXOVER is an interesting example.
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We weigh in heavily on the idea of Bring Your Own IDentity. How does this relate to URLs that we see in so many protocols? And especially the HTTP and AMQP URLs?
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Most of us have heard about Quantum Computing and its immense power to break today's strongest security mechanisms. What is the sense and nonsense?
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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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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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