<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The board list is the wrong place to ask this.<div>Please post to <a href="mailto:general@openid.net">general@openid.net</a> instead.</div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 31, 2008, at 6:59, Per Ekström wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p>Hi. I'm quite new to this whole OpenID thing, though I do find the idea in itself to be wonderful. Since every little blog and photo gallery nowadays seems to require subscriptions, I've more or less given up on the password front...</p><p>Anyhow, forgive me if it has been covered before, but, I tried searching the web for three hours and couldn't find an answer, so, I thought I should ask here for a concise explanation.</p><p>My first question is regarding the Phishing attacks that are mentioned at Wikipedia [1] - Are they still valid or is it just FUD that has been floating around since an old version of the standard?</p><p>And second - While I know Man-In-The-Middle between user and OpenID-provider is quite easy to stave off, what about OpenID-provider and the website I'm trying to log in to? Whenever man-in-the-middle discussion about this appears, it's always in the form of User-to-OpenID-Provider, not the other way around.</p><p>If someone could take the time to explain this to me (or point me in the direction of an FAQ), so I could convince my boss to allow OpenID logins, I'd be very grateful. <span>^<span>^</span></span></p><p>Oh, and is there some sort of community icon for OpenID I could use, to show that our website does indeed support OpenID?</p><p>Regards,<br>Per Ekström</p><p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID</a></p> _______________________________________________<br>board mailing list<br><a href="mailto:board@openid.net">board@openid.net</a><br>http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board<br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>Johannes Ernst</div><div>NetMesh Inc.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span><img height="16" width="16" src="cid:A9F79C49-09FA-4C14-96D2-867562EE1199@hsd1.ca.comcast.net."></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "> </span><span><img height="16" width="36" src="cid:FE089E56-C1C3-471D-BAA7-28EEC60F099C@hsd1.ca.comcast.net."></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "> <a href="http://netmesh.info/jernst">http://netmesh.info/jernst</a></span> </div><br></div></body></html>