[sugar] Integration with web apps (and Moodle specifically!)

[Dan Williams]

On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 00:35 -0400, Ivan Krstić wrote:
> Ian Bicking wrote:
> > By "system-wide", do you mean global, country, or school-wide?
> 
> I meant operating-system level. Any application will be able to use a
> stable API to verify and issue a digsig; each kid will have an
> (obviously) unique keypair.
> 
> This provides an emergent PKI based on key continuity management (KCM);
> it's PKI minus all the really ugly bits that make PKI not work in normal
> situations, basically.

Can we have a meeting about the direction of this, specs, APIs, etc?

Dan

> > Something like a client-side SSL certificate
> 
> Certificates are complex and difficult to manage, and would reintroduce
> the ugly PKI bits from above that I'm working hard to avoid. But
> functionally, we'll still be able to do encryption and authentication
> where it makes sense.
> 
> > So, if one child is connecting to a laptop they have
> > connected to before, they can be identified without a connection to any
> > centralized certificate authority.
> 
> This is KCM, so yes.
>