[OpenID] Association poisoning

Martin Atkins mart at degeneration.co.uk
Sun Mar 8 20:17:49 UTC 2009


Andrew Arnott wrote:
> Martin,
> Yes, that about sums it up.  Since thinking of this potential problem I
> couldn't find anywhere in the OpenID 2.0 spec that calls out the caution.
>  If it isn't there, perhaps 2.1 can add it.
> 
> As stated in my blog post, I only checked Janrain's ruby library and
> dotnetopenid.  I haven't checked any other RPs.  I hope that anyone that
> owns an RP implementation will check for this.

I checked the Perl Net::OpenID::Consumer implementation and confirmed 
that it doesn't suffer from this flaw.




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