[OpenID] What are openids weaknesses?

[Stephen Paul Weber]

OAuth (not directly related to OpenID) is working on solving the API problem

On 9/1/07, Patrick Aljord <patcito at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
> I'm doing a presentations and I need a little more information about
> OpenId weaknesses and how they are being addressed.
> I know there is this draft to fight against phishing:
>
> http://openid.net/specs/openid-provider-authentication-policy-extension-1_0-01.html
>
> If you have other links or information, please sent it.
>
> Also, most people doing presentations on openid talk about how
> facebook and the like should use openid. But openid doesn't support
> HTTP authentication so people that want to use eg facebook API would
> have to use another authentication system which would defeat the
> purpose of openid (as each system would have its own account system).
> Is this being worked on also? I saw a draft
> http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/REST/SOAP/HTTP_Bindings but it seems
> pretty old. Are there people working on it such as sxip.com or
> something? Any information welcome here too.
>
> Thanx in advance
>
> Pat
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