[OpenID] Changes to the OpenID Foundation member page login

SitG Admin sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
Mon Dec 8 02:27:59 UTC 2008


>Is funny that OpenID bootstrapped itself on UCI - but will surely 
>now evolve into a very large web-scale control system. It will 
>probably rather more effective than the UK/US/Aus governments even 
>wanted the PKI vendors to enable for them (since openid runs at the 
>app layer, rather than behind a difficult to access network socket).

As browsers, too, evolve, peer-to-peer PKI will become more 
accessible to the casual user. Whether they will actually know or 
care how to take advantage of it seems doubtful, though ;)

-Shade



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