[OpenID] OpenID & Estonia.

[Simon Josefsson]

Hello Martin!

I am interested in combining OpenID with eID in Sweden.  I am the
maintainer of GnuTLS, and in an experimental branch I have support for
eID-based smart card authentication in TLS.  I have a GnuTLS server up
and running, and have tested my Swedish eID-card via a GnuTLS-based
browser and it seems to work fine.  The final step is to build the
OpenID server, and I have some experience there (adapting the JanRain
example PHP server for youbico.com's server).

Do you have source code available?  I have started looking at modifying
JanRain's PHP server to support PKI-authentication, and it looks simple
to do.  If you have something ready, or we can build something together,
I'd be very interested to hear about your design and implementation.

Cheers,
Simon

Martin Paljak <martin at paljak.pri.ee> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> A short introduction - I'm the main person behind https://open.id.ee  
> service, better known by  "OpenID and Estonia".
>
> I'd like to answer another mail from this list (http://openid.net/ 
> pipermail/general/2007-May/002531.html) and ask everybody who is  
> interested in the subject or would like to write about it - it is  
> good the way it is currently (no real coverage). Any kind of big news  
> should come only *after* the service has been announced, proper  
> documentation and overview is available in English and so on.
>
> I can't change the human word going around on the blogosphere but I'd  
> like to keep it controlled and verified for any kind of bigger words  
> or news. It is both interesting as well as annoying to see how people  
> play "telephone game". It is all in the best interests of both OpenID  
> and the given service to get only the right facts around so that  
> misunderstandings like "Estonia issuing OpenID-s" or "Estonia issuing  
> smart cards for OpenID authentication" would not get any ground (both  
> claims/concepts are wrong and are personal assumptions of bloggers).
>
> Also, if you have ANY questions about this topic, please don't  
> hesitate to e-mail me, contact me via skype or just reply to this  
> message.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Martin Paljak
>
> -- 
> Martin Paljak
> http://martin.paljak.pri.ee