[dini-ag-kim-identifier] SWIB18 Breakout Session HTTP vs. HTTPS

[Klee, Carsten]

Hey everyone!

First of all, thank you Jana for summarizing our discussion. The text reflects all the problems and arguments, I think.

After reading about our discussion, I once again thought about my idea to apply a checksum within the document, which then can be verified via an https connection. But at second thought, I see that the idea was not well thought out. There are various problems with this approach. To mention only one: If anybody adds a checksum to a document, then the checksum of the document changes, thus the provided checksum is invalid.

Anyhow, I stumbled upon the Linked Data Signatures draft [1], which yields the same problem but with a superior technology (public/private keys etc.).

I don’t think, that this is really an option for library data providers: Too hard to implement, too much data overflow. But anyhow, I just wanted to let you know.

Cheers!

Carsten

[1] https://w3c-dvcg.github.io/ld-signatures/


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Von: Hentschke, Jana [mailto:J.Hentschke at dnb.de]
Gesendet: Montag, 4. Februar 2019 14:04
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Cc: 'Christoph, Pascal'; 'Jahnke, Alexander'; Michele Casalini; Svensson, Lars; 'raphaelle.lapotre at bnf.fr'; Klee, Carsten; 'Thomas Baker'; Laczny, Joachim; 'martin.scholz at fau.de'
Betreff: SWIB18 Breakout Session HTTP vs. HTTPS

Hello everyone,

We had this enlightening Breakout Session during SWIB18 together and I promised to wrap it up and store the results in the Wikispace of the German Competence Centre Interoperable Metadata (KIM). I now did:
https://wiki.dnb.de/x/06S5C

Please let me know if you find anything that I didn’t reproduce accurately.

I also added a section “Materials” and “More observations/inquiries results”. I will be happy to add further links and infos if you have any.

If you came across more to add to the discussion in the meantime or have other colleagues who might have, I suggest we follow up via the corresponding mailing list to the KIM Wikispace “identifier”:
https://lists.dnb.de/mailman/listinfo/dini-ag-kim-identifier

Please feel free to register!

Best,
Jana


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