[OpenID] Yahoo hijacking?

Allen Tom atom at yahoo-inc.com
Sat Apr 19 01:58:18 UTC 2008


SitG Admin wrote:
>> This realm discovery feature was added  to patch a security hole in 
>> OpenID 1.1, and is one of the main reasons why Yahoo does not support 
>> OpenID 1. More details here:
>>
>> http://openid.net/pipermail/security/2007-February/000241.html
>
> Is this feature exclusive to Yahoo, or is it part of the 2.0 specs?
>
> -Shade
This feature is defined in Section 13 of the OpenID 2.0 spec.

http://openid.net/specs/openid-authentication-2_0.html#rp_discovery

It's really a good idea for OPs to implement this.

Allen




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