[OpenID] My 2 Cents to the OpenID foundation

santrajan santrajan at gmail.com
Thu Apr 2 19:16:04 UTC 2009


But I think there is more to it than just that. Because i was not able to
verify their SHA512 signature though their response mentions clearly it is
SHA512.


Martin Atkins-2 wrote:
> 
> santrajan wrote:
>> myspace signatures are SHA512 not in Openid specs. The dont support SHA1
>> and
>> SHA256.
>> 
> 
> Ahh. This explains the interop problems with various sites I tried.
> 
> I guess they're getting this support from DotNetOpenId, which supports 
> additional signature schemes HMAC-SHA384, HMAC-SHA512, DH-SHA384 and 
> DH-SHA512.
> 
> It'd be good if MySpace could at least also enable SHA256 for interop 
> with compliant OpenID 2.0 implementations. (Though I'm aware of at least 
> a few implementations that currently only support SHA-1, but that's 
> certainly a problem since SHA-1 has been broken.)
> 
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