Special Request: Client Certificates vs. OpenID
Johannes Ernst
jernst+openid.net at netmesh.us
Mon Jan 22 20:18:43 UTC 2007
So I've been doing some asking around who might be interested in co-
authoring some kind of white paper on the subject of user-centric
identity in/for the enterprise. There are some volunteers with a
variety of view points -- no guarantees that we'll manage to produce
something collaboratively (cross-vendor white papers tend to be hard)
-- and we'll see where that goes.
That only goes partially to your point, but it is a step.
On Jan 22, 2007, at 9:08, McGovern, James F ((HTSC, IT)) wrote:
> Last week I sent a note to the list inquiring whether anyone on
> this list wanted to participate in our industry vertical standards
> body in hopes of ratifying OpenID as an endorsed horizontal
> specification. In terms of preparation, it would be greatly
> appreciated if Dick Hardt, Johannes Ernst and other bloggers could
> from their blog discuss user-centric identity as a potential
> solution to industry vertical concerns since nothing neutral
> (produced by a vendor and not an insurance carrier) exists in this
> regard.
>
> Other industry verticals such as Pharmaceutical have embraced PKI
> approaches where they issue client certificates to participants.
> Many PKI vendors have in secret created user certificate management
> issues, the inability to allow for roaming users, sharing of
> desktops, and other concerns that I am of the belief that user-
> centric approaches could handle. Of course PKI-centric and user-
> centric don't have to be mutually exclusive but it would be
> wonderful if the blog entry reflected how approaches such as SAFE
> (pharma) would have looked in a user-centric world.
>
>
>
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