[OpenID] Secure attribute transmission

Allen Tom atom at yahoo-inc.com
Mon Aug 4 16:55:42 UTC 2008


Easysurfer at gmx.de wrote:
> I'd like to transmit sensitive data over the Attribute Exchange Extension and was wondering about the best way for encryption.
>
> I was thinking I could do the login w/out attribute exchange, and then 
> use a direct connection from the RP to OP over https to retrieve the 
> attributes.  

Sounds like you should use OAuth to pass an Access Token to the RP, and 
then have the RP make a web service request back to the OP to retrieve 
the user attributes over HTTPS.


Allen




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