#social 2020-07-04

2020-07-04 UTC
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xbdf
The spec for HTTP signatures says that hs2019 means the algorithm is 'Derived from metadata associated with "keyId"'. Does such metadata exist for keys in the fediverse?
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nightpool[m]
I don't think so, we all decided to just use rsa-sha256, but if we needed to add that metadata we could do so easily in the publicKey object
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aaronpk
is there a good story for client authentication in the activitypub world yet?
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aaronpk
or is it still just mastodon's flavor of OAuth
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nightpool[m]
aaronpk: I'm sure the people with c2s implemented are doing *something*, but I don't know what it is yet
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aaronpk
do you think there'd be any interest in me doing a session about OAuth at activitypub conf?
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BradKoehn[m]
Yes!
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sl007
aaronpk confirmative! definitely, wanted to do a session called "web layer" about OAuth last conf but we had too less time cause of one slot ending in one session and we talked about IndieAuth at Offdem and and and
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aaronpk
is there a list of activitypub clients anywhere? I've only been able to find lists of server platforms
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aaronpk
or is this just like not a concept?
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sl007
aaronpk just btw : we are in #apconf as well
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aaronpk
on this server?
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sl007
on freenode
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BradKoehn[m]
Sorry what’s the apconf room address?
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sl007
BradKoehn[m] Sorry, we had a planning meeting, it is channel "#apconf" at irc.freenode.net
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BradKoehn[m]
When I try to join by clicking on the link, I get this