Application Ideas

From Konfidi

• Email
  • Thunderbird plugin
    • Can be used with/depend upon Enigmail
    • Looking for good tutorials, however, they are not easy to find.
    • Also not easy to find references on Thunderbird XUL
  • Qpsmtpd plugin
• Information on the web (i.e. for citing for academic purposes or just general trustworthiness)
  • Trust in RDF statements, using named graphs or reification
  • http://www.afn.org/~afn21533/signweb.htm
  • http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2002-September/015026.html
  • http://members.aol.com/EJNBell/pgp-www.html
  • http://www.swi-prolog.org/pgp.html
  • http://jim.willingham.com/pgphow4.htm
  • apache module to serve multipart/signed
  • firefox extension to handle it and query konfidi server
• Wiki Spam
• Weblog Spam - see Konfidi and Atom
  • There are OpenID plugins for WordPress
  • Wordpress Plugin for verifying OpenPGP-clearsigned comments
  • Moveable Type Plugin for verifying OpenPGP-clearsigned comments
• Spim (IM spam)
  • Jabber usage of OpenPGP
  • Gaim plugin using RSA public/private key encryption and nonces (does not use OpenPGP)
  • Gaim OpenPGP plugin
• Software releases / downloads
  • Web
  • p2p
• Business transactions
  • Purchases
  • Information exchange
  • eBay, etc, etc, etc
• Integrate with phone system against telemarketers
• Find people you can trust carpooling with
• http://vapours.rdfweb.org/pipermail/rdfweb-dev/2003-July/thread.html#11396 - good discussion
• recommendations for {movies|books|purchases|doctors}
• "Single sign-on" based on PGP keys (passport, i-Names, are competitors in this area)
• trust to see more detailed contact info (giant person directory)
  • LDAP hooks
• Version Control Systems (e.g. Subversion)
  • signed commits, allowed by anyone trusted for #committing-to-project-X
    • Bazaar-ng (among others, I think) support PGP-signed commits
    • Bazaar supports plugins, too