[OpenID] OpenID in SMTP/IMAP/XMPP/etc

[Simon Josefsson]

Eric Sachs <esachs at google.com> writes:

> There is a similar effort of OAuth+SASL to enable OpenID.  This page has
> some old info
>   https://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/Home/oauthimap
> as well as a link to the mailing list.  Yahoo has generally been the most
> active in the work in this area.

I'd like to implement that as well, eventually.  However, I don't see
how that enables OpenID?  It is OAuth.  It may enable OpenID Connect,
but there is still a large deployment of OpenID 2.0.

/Simon

>
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org>wrote:
>
>> It allows clients to authenticate against servers using OpenID for
>> protocols that uses SASL.  That includes SMTP, IMAP, XMPP and so on.  So
>> far OpenID has been for web login only, but this changes that.
>>
>> /Simon
>>
>> Peter Williams <home_pw at msn.com> writes:
>>
>> > Why does it need to exist?
>> >
>> > What does it do that 156 other gss methods do not do?
>> >
>> > Sent from my iPhone
>> >
>> > On Mar 29, 2012, at 11:17 PM, "Nat Sakimura" <sakimura at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Great news!
>> >>
>> >> I will have a look at it.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >>
>> >> Nat
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org>
>> wrote:
>> >> Hi folks!
>> >>
>> >> I have been working on the IETF draft for OpenID in SASL:
>> >>
>> >> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-kitten-sasl-openid-08
>> >>
>> >> and now also implemented it in GNU SASL, see this writeup:
>> >>
>> >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gsasl/2012-03/msg00004.html
>> >>
>> >> I wanted to reach out to the OpenID community to find people who want to
>> >> work on implementing/deploying this.  If you have some interest in
>> >> implementing OpenID support for your SASL-based application (SMTP, IMAP,
>> >> XMPP, etc) let me know and I will try to help.
>> >>
>> >> If anyone else has implemented the OPENID20 mechanism, I would also love
>> >> to do interop testing.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> /Simon
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