Native support for browsers in OpenID V.Next

Allen Tom atom at yahoo-inc.com
Sat May 22 00:19:12 UTC 2010


> I think it would a great idea to have native browser support for OpenID and
> the folks over at Mozilla are trying to get OpenID support into Firefox 4.
> 
> More info about the project is here:
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Weave/Identity/Account_Manager
> 
> Allen
> 
> 
> On May 20, 2010, at 9:22 AM, Santosh Rajan wrote:
> 
>> I would like to see OpenID V.Next include native browser support for OpenID
>> in V.Next. This has a key advantage that it will vastly improve the security
>> and privacy implications for OpenID.
>> 
>> OpenID so far has only considered two parties involved in the dance. The OP
>> and RP. If we can farm out some parts of the dance to the browser vendors we
>> can bring the assertion mechanism much closer to the user (currently residing
>> with the OP).
>> 

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