About XMPPWebID

XMPPWebID is an project intended to add WebID authentication to the XMPP protocol.

Currently, it’s composed by:

• python-xmppwebid python functions to create and validate XMPPWebID-enabled certificates
• django-xmppwebid-provider a Django webapp that creates an XMPP account and generates a certificate that can be installed in a XMPP client or browser

To use your certificate in XMPP (Jabber) you would need:</p>

• a client that supports user certificates (currently Gajim v0.14)
• and a Jabber server software that supports SASL EXTERNAL authentication (Jabberd)

Coming soon...

• django-webid-auth: a Django middleware to provide WebID autentication
• django-webid-profile: a Django webapp to generate a WebID profile and URI

Technologies

• XMPP protocol
• WebID for authentication
• FOAF ontology for the user WebID profile
• Certificate and RSA vocabularies to associate the user certificate public key to the WebID
• X509 certificates
• XMPP In-Band-Registration extension for account registration
• TLS protocol for secure communications
• XMPP SASL EXTERNAL authentication mechanism
• SPARQL to extract WebID URI, public keys and Jabber account

Publications

• WebID-enabled XMPP: a bridge to the social web on your IM and beyond, slides (Paper at FSW2011)

Install

See Installing XMPPWebID

Documentation

• This documentation: ref:ref-introduction
• python-xmppwebid API

Download

You can download this project in either

• zip or
• tar formats.

You can also clone the project with Git by running::

$ git clone git://github.com/xmppwebid/xmppwebid

Bugs and features

If you wish to signal a bug or report a feature request, please fill-in an issue on the XMPPWebID issue tracker

License

XMPPWebID is copyright 2010 by xmppwebid and is covered by the GPLv3

Contact

(xmppwebid at gmail dot com)

Acknowledgments

foaf-protocols community