The problem with OpenID (TAKE 2)

Melvin Carvalho melvincarvalho at gmail.com
Mon May 17 17:40:54 UTC 2010


2010/5/17 Santosh Rajan <santrajan at gmail.com>

> Unfortunately I haven't seen any concrete work for OpenID V.Next. I agree
> David's strawman "OpenID Connect" has interesting properties. Unfortunately
> David's strawman "tantamounts to a virtual admission that we have no better
> idea's for OpenID".
>
> The reason i am saying this is because we seem to have got ourselves stuck
> up on the idea that "Only symmetric keys will work". In spite of the fact
> that I am more or less in tune with this idea, have we "investigated the
> fact that asymmetric keys might be the solution to the Identity problem?". I
> know this will ruffle some feathers around here, but don't you think we need
> to give it a serious consideration for OpenID.
>

Doesn't myopenid.com allow asymmetric keys and X.509 for single sign on via
OpenID?


>
> And on a lighter note -
>
> David said "Why the name "OpenID Connect"? I'm a geek which means that
> good branding (or good design) isn't my thing, but Chris Messina (who is
> good at branding and design) proposed it a few months ago."
>
>
> This is like the "beauty" claiming to be the "GEEK". And I will tell you
> why.
>
>
> After researching the OpenID story for the last few years all  I saw was
> that the real GEEK was "Brad Fitz", and David presumably was the "beauty" in
> the OpenID story.
>
> And where did "Chris Messina" come into the OpenID story? Neither is he a
> "geek" or a "beauty"!
>
>
>
> http://hi.im/santosh
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