[OpenID] Laws of id, openid with ssl

[Ben Laurie]

On Jan 26, 2008 2:16 PM, Josh Hoyt <josh at janrain.com> wrote:
> On Jan 26, 2008 4:15 AM, Martin Atkins <mart at degeneration.co.uk> wrote:
> > A subtle difference, but one I think might end up being a point of
> > confusion for other people too. "Ofuscated" is, in retrospect, probably
> > too "geeky" a word to use in public for this, but perhaps "anonymous"
> > would work? The goal is to avoid people knowing who you are, so
> > anonymous seems like a reasonable term for it.
>
> I think that anonymous has different problems. Each time you visit a
> site, you're sending the same identifier as last time (otherwise,
> there's no point in having an identifier at all), so you're not really
> getting anonymity, you're really getting pseudonymity [1]. I think
> that people are comfortable enough with the concept of a pseudonym,
> and it's not a technical term.

Although I have not seen it suggested that OpenID is used this way, it
occurs to me that it could be: rather than being pseudonymous you
might be proving membership of some group - so everyone in the group
has the same ID.

>
> Josh
>
> 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonymity
>
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