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

[Eric Sachs]

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.


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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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
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> >> Chairman, OpenID Foundation
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Eric Sachs | Senior Product Manager | esachs at google.com
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