The first ARPA2 All Hands meeting is scheduled to take place on December 9th 2015 at SURFnet in Utrecht. Get to know the architecture and thinking behind ARPA2 and why we think the internet needs it, and get up to speed on the various sub projects. And of course: come and have lots of fun with cutting edge internet technology.
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Delivery report of the SteamWorks specifications for Crank and Shaft
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Many websites are dynamic, and require the use of a database in their backend. It is surprising to so how unfit this solution is for the problem at hand.
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Previous parts of this series have used the Global Directory for storing public authentication information in the form of public key material. These mechanisms are much better than the common poor man's choice of using passwords. Unfortunately however, we are all poor men (and women) in some parts of our daily lives; we all use protocols and tools that are not capable of those advanced cryptographic exchanges. And a plethora of scripted web-tools is not improving that! So the ideal would be to publish a password verification method in the Global Directory as well. The SRP mechanism makes this possible.
This article is part of a series of articles about the global directory.
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This episode explains what the ideas are, and defers the technical detail to later articles. This introduction explains how global directories can benefit you, your family and your company. In short, a global directory is a way of retrieving contact information from others, using standard technology, so you can employ tools that download and update contact information without any input from you.
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