[OpenID] Help on finding OpenID Provider?

Evan Prodromou evan at prodromou.name
Mon May 21 21:05:22 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-21-05 at 12:00 -0700, Josh Hoyt wrote:

> Using a client certificate like prooveme.com does not verify anything
> about the user's identity, which I think is what Ed was asking about.
> If I understand correctly, certifi.ca does not do any verification
> either (even though you may use a cert from somewhere that *does* do
> at least some verification to sign in to certifi.ca).

certifi.ca uses only certs from CAs that are known to do some form of
verification. However, often this verification is no more than an email
check.

certifi.ca doesn't issue its own certs; it uses certs from well-known
CAs.

-Evan

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