[OpenID] On OpenID 2.0

Rowan Kerr rowan at sxip.com
Thu May 3 13:48:31 UTC 2007


On 30-Apr-07, at 2:29 PM, Chris Messina wrote:
> Adoption so far has rested, I believe, on this simplicity and
> straightforwardness. Most folks with whom I've spoken about OpenID
> take a look at the 1.1 spec and are eager to implement it. Those whom
> I've asked about 2.0 run away, arms flailing.


When I started my OpenID implementation, it was from one of
the older 2.0 specs (last Spring/Summer?) ...

The most complicated part, I found, was the Diffie-Hellman stuff
which is also in OpenID 1.1 .. the rest of the 2.0 stuff seemed
pretty straight forward.

-Rowan




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