Hoosgot

http://mooseyard.com/Jens/2008/01/dear-lazyweb-certificates-in-rdf/ asks Hoosgot,

Dear Lazyweb, The project I’m working on will be using cryptographic certificates in a distributed web-of-trust model a little like that of PGP. It will also use certs as more than just proofs of identity. Given that I’ll be writing a lot of code using certs, I want to avoid the nastiness of X.509 whenever possible. After thinking about this a while, it seems to me that RDF ought to be a good way to represent certs, since it describes arbitrary types of relationships between entities (e.g. FOAF), and allows them to be composed in complex ways. And there are a lot of tools available for parsing/storing/querying RDF. Unfortunately, I know very little about RDF so far, or about the uses …

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