[OpenID] Doubts about the implementation of OpenID

Andrew Arnott andrewarnott at gmail.com
Fri Nov 28 18:27:44 UTC 2008


Hi Elvin,

OpenID absolutely works in Windows environments. I recommend http://dotnetopenid.googlecode.com/

On 11/28/08, Peter Williams <pwilliams at rapattoni.com> wrote:
> Folks claim there are 26,000 companies already doing this, using  
> mainstream
> blogging platforms (on a variety of OS).
>
> MyOpenID happily support those 26,000 firms, with outsourced OP  
> services, if
> I understand right. Presumably, most communities are 100-1000 parties.
>
> As far as I can tell, few if any of those 26,000 RPs accept openids  
> other
> than those minted for their closed network. I've scoured the web for  
> them
> using crawlers, and found few (like <10).
>
> Im at the same point I think, as you, on perhaps a bigger scale. I'd  
> like to
> give someone like myopenid the 6 million URLs that we provision off  
> to folks
> in emails, and let said OP outsourcer offer those users the ability to
> upgrade them to be openids - usable to talk back to Rapattoni-land  
> and THEN
> perhaps other RPs in the realty universe. It would seem silly as a  
> consumer
> that one cannot leverage a Rapattoni-provisioned openid also at  
> other major
> realty sites with mass consumer audiences.
>
> The key to all this is the assurances of the OP outsourcer, eg.  
> myopenid.
> Will they or will they not sell off the correlations between RPs (like
> Google does, in pursuing its adwords revenue). Even if the  
> trustworthy execs
> at myopenid don't do that today, will the company that buys (e.g.)  
> myopenid
> then go do retroactive data mining....
>
> Nice to see openID growing up, and hitting the (really) hard  
> questions. If
> engineering adoption seemed hard, engineering a system of public  
> assurances
> is even harder!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net]  
> On
> Behalf Of Elvin Hernàndez
> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 9:45 AM
> To: general at openid.net; specs at openid.net
> Subject: [OpenID] Doubts about the implementation of OpenID
>
> Hi everybody!!!
>
> I intend to use the OpenID protocol in the company for I'm working;  
> the goal
> is offering an internal authentication service using OpenID. However  
> I have
> some technical questions about the OpenID's implementation.
>
> First, there are some OpenID's libraries with differents functions,  
> how can
> I select the best OpenID's library? Is there some library better  
> than the
> others?
>
> Second, I have seen tha the most OpenID's implementations are  
> performed on
> Linux or UNIX enviroments, Can OpenID be implemented on Windows  
> enviroments?
>
> Third, in connection with the question above, Can I use SQL instead  
> mySQL as
> OpenID's repository? Can I use other kind repositores like LDAP?
>
> On the other hand, I'm looking for a company that can help me to  
> develop a
> complete authentication system using OpenID, you wouldn't know the  
> name
> and/or the contact's company that can help me by any chance?
>
> Thank you and regards.
>
>
>
>
> ____________________________________________________________________________________
 

> ¡Todo sobre Amor y Sexo!
> La guía completa para tu vida en Mujer de Hoy.
> http://mujerdehoy.telemundo.yahoo.com/
> _______________________________________________
> general mailing list
> general at openid.net
> http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general
> _______________________________________________
> general mailing list
> general at openid.net
> http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general
>


-- 
--
Andrew Arnott
"I [may] not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the  
death your right to say it." - Voltaire



More information about the general mailing list