Keypair Authentication

[ZenenTreadwell]

This might already be an aspect of Manas, I'm not sure - do you have plans to support signing in to Manas with an ed25519 key or something similar?

[ZenenTreadwell]

I looked around, and there is a supporting spec for the workflow I am hoping to implement: https://w3c.github.io/WebID/spec/tls/#authentication-sequence

[damooo]

Hello @ZenenTreadwell

The WebId-TLS is not a protocol level mechanism, but also depends upon channel level. And hence can be problematic in few cases.

There are other specs in WIP, which are trying to address this in context of Solid. Like HttpSig, and other.

I wrote a technical gist of current state, and possibilities here. Please have a look.

[damooo]

See also #16

[ZenenTreadwell]

This totally slipped my mind until now. I took a look at HttpSig and it seems like a really lightweight and effective way to implement this strategy. As someone with interest in the Nostr ecosystem, I'm familiar with the strategy as it is outlined here.

It seems that this is basically the same, and having that on top of the existing methods that you've outlined in the document seems like a very robust solution.

Thank you, once again, for the work you're doing here! I know it's a huge project to take on but this really does seem like necessary software for Solid to succeed.