[OpenID] XRD signing and a new kind of Claimed Identifier

[Johannes Ernst]

If I understand you correctly, you are essentially describing LID.

http://lid.netmesh.org/wiki/LID_By_Example



On Jun 4, 2009, at 20:36, Andrew Arnott wrote:

> I haven't read the XRD spec draft, so I don't know how well this  
> would fit in, but I wonder...
>
> Could we put a public key in an XRD file, and have the  
> authentication process be that the OP proves it has the private key,  
> and then the public key is the claimed identifier?  If we could pull  
> this off we'd totally solve the problem of being able to change the  
> URI or XRI identifier while still maintaining the user account at  
> each RP; and similarly we could abandon a URL without fear of  
> someone else picking it up and stealing the old user's identity.
>
> Basically, have many of the same benefits of XRIs today, except  
> without the annual fee of owning a top-level i-name, and without  
> being locked down to one XRI service.  For example I have a few i- 
> names, each with their own i-number, but these numbers aren't really  
> portable.  AFAIK I can't abandon all my i-names, then acquire all  
> new i-names with different services and different numbers of *  
> characters in them, and then hook up my old i-numbers and expect it  
> all to work.
>
> Is this way off base, or a possibility?
>
> --
> Andrew Arnott
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Johannes Ernst
NetMesh Inc.

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