[OpenID] OpenID provider with gibberish identity URLs to avoid nickname change issues

[Evan Prodromou]

On Mon, 2007-28-05 at 20:08 +0700, Stuart Bishop wrote:
> I am working on turning a webapp into an OpenID provider. One if the
> features of the webapp is that the user's nicknames are changable. We would
> like nickname changes to not affect other applications we need to integrate
> with, so wish to use an unchanging opaque identifier instead of the user's
> nickname.

Given the choice of IDs that are readable and meaningful, and IDs that
survive nickname changes, I'd prefer the former.

-Evan

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