16 Sep
2017
16 Sep
'17
8:05 a.m.
Chris;
If you need a liason for LoTW...
W1ZFG is a good friend of mine who I assist when he gets stuck.
He's our local repeater club's secretary AND works for ARRL in LoTW.
I'll be speaking with him tonight on the local VHF nets.
If you need a human to bridge this project to LoTW, let me know.
In the interim look at:
http://www.arrl.org/developer
On Sat, 2017-09-16 at 08:50 +0100, G1FEF via 44Net wrote:
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That's how I lost my mind.
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On 16 Sep
2017, at 03:02, Pedja YT9TP <yt9tp(a)uzice.net> wrote:
On 15.09.2017 17:51, Chris via 44Net wrote:
It has other uses in other areas of Amateur Radio, but yes, when I looked into the
possibilities previously it would take some effort, which is why I wouldn’t take it on on
my own.
I am interested in putting some effort into such
a project, it would be of benefit not only to the AMPRNet Portal, but has wider benefits
to other areas of Amateur Radio I'm involved in. I was looking a while back at how to
validate a user for the Portal with the ultimate goal of issuing certificates similar to
LOTW.
I guess that would be far to much work for small population it would target. If you want certification use LOTW. It is meant
just for that purpose and they already did all the job. LOTW certification is not
complicated because they made it so. It is just if you use certificates, it gets
complicated. And LOTW managed to make it as simple as possible.
It may be possible to link to LOTW if they were willing, but setting up our own CA and
issuing certificates is not difficult and doesn’t need to be complicated.
It’s the validation bit that’s difficult, for most countries you can’t automate the
process, it would need a human being to validate the request. My thoughts were along the
lines of establishing and building a web of trust to delegate the work. It’s not just
coding effort, it’s social engineering as well.
Chris
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