[OpenID] What are openids weaknesses?

[Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)]

Peter Williams wrote:
> Hmm. Lets rewrite that and create a compare/contrast situation. Let's
> see what information we can infer from the comparison.
>
> As Len Baurie in a piece called "SAML: Phishing Heaven" notes.....
>
> The basic claim in the argument is that openid is crap on the grounds of
> the flow.
>
> Does it there follow as true that saml is similarly crap because of it
> offers the identical flow?
But then one might ask, where is the adoption by the masses of both 
openid or saml? Certainly nothing I'm aware of - or better, not many 
choose to rely on it, except in a closed relying relation...i.e. I trust 
my own delegation point, not that of others.

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