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

[Simon Josefsson]

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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