[OpenID] Bug in OpenID RP implementations

Martin Atkins mart at degeneration.co.uk
Fri Jan 2 00:40:06 UTC 2009


Andrew Arnott wrote:
> 
> Ideally, myopenid.com and all other OPs would redirect identity page
> requests that come in on HTTP to HTTPS so that all claimed identifiers and
> authentication would occur over HTTPS to provide higher security to users.
> 

Of course, as we currently stand existing providers such as MyOpenID 
cannot do this because that would effectively change the OpenID 
identifiers for all of their users that had not explicitly typed teh 
https: prefix into the RP.

OpenID really needs a way to migrate from one identifier to another 
without breaking the connection to existing accounts.




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