[OpenID] OpenID + Government

[David Recordon]

Hey Troy,
The closest software that I know about is http://siege.org/projects/phpMyID/ 
  which is a simple provider written in PHP.  I would love to see what  
you describe exist, have any constructive ideas about how to go about  
making it happen?

--David

On Aug 11, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:

>> Since the architecture allows any 1 id through delegation to be  
>> different things to different assertion consumers, the only way for  
>> Yahoo (say) to comply with the assurance draft is to ELIMINATE ITS  
>> SUPPORT FOR OPENID DELEGATION (which google has already done,  
>> apparently).
>>
>> We seem to be rapidly losing what openid is/was all about: user  
>> empowerment and control.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something here, if we are really about user  
> empowerment and control,
> where are the debian/fedora/OSX-Fink packages to allow a random user  
> (or maybe, say
> a small DOE lab research group, like http://scl.ameslab.gov) to run  
> a full-fledged IdP
> WITH delegation, and integration into desktop and email  
> authentication systems like
> Kerberos?
>
> It seems quite hypocritical for OpenID proponents to talk about how  
> it's all about user
> empowerment and control without providing an easy-to-use open-source  
> reference implementation
> that does not require learning 'yet another' set of acronyms.
>
>
> I'm really hoping that I've just missed something, and someone will  
> point me out the FAQ
> on how I can set up an OpenID IdP server in 15 minutes on my debian  
> machines
> at home and use kerberos credentials (which I already have for  
> access my local
> files, via AFS), to be able to authenticate me to my IdP.
>
>
> Give me the 15 minute HOWTO, and cleanly implemented software  
> packages, and I can probably
> have this running on more than one .gov address in a month or two.  
> (.. a case in point..
> Does anyone have documentation on using an OpenID to log into a  
> sharepoint server?? )
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