[security] [OpenID] Trust + Security @ OpenID

[Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)]

... Hi Peter, just saw your blog...
... Who installed wordpress (or whatever) for you?
 ... You did?
... Ahhh...you also installed a few plugins?
... Really?
 ... You also added the OpenID login option to your blog?
 ... Very nice...job well done!

Now tell me why should it be any different for having OpenID login 
including some "trust" mechanism? Did you develop wordpress in order to 
blog on your web site?

Peter Williams wrote:
> I'm a blogger. I want to allow other commentators to add to my rant, logging in using their openid.I want to decide which openid providers I trust. I have no faith whatsoever in the decisions of google - my blogsite operator - on this score.
>
> I'm a blogger....not an apache/iis admin skilled in IT.
>
> How do we design for this? 
>
> 10000 bloggers, 10000 trust models during reliance. 10000 trust stores in iis/apache?
>   
huuu? Perhaps 1 trust model would be good already.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)" <eddy_nigg at startcom.org>
> To: "Eric Norman" <ejnorman at doit.wisc.edu>
> Cc: "OpenID List" <security at openid.net>; "OpenID List" <general at openid.net>
> Sent: 7/21/07 7:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [OpenID] [security]  Trust + Security @ OpenID
>
> Apache web servers come many times with a CA bundle installed (mostly 
> Linux distributions). This is usually a dump from the NSS (Mozilla) 
> store. One can add easily more PEM encoded certificate to that bundle - 
> all the ones you want to trust. Implementation can require valid 
> certificates traceable back to a root in the CA bundle.
>
> I don't know much about IIS (anymore), but I guess the same could be 
> possible there, using the local machine store.
>
> Eric Norman wrote:
>   
>> On Jul 20, 2007, at 8:30 AM, Johnathan Nightingale wrote:
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> As Dmitry observes, the protection it offers is useless if there are 
>>> http (i.e. non-SSL/TLS) links in the chain.
>>>     
>>>       
>> True enough.  But there's more.  Many will argue that such
>> protection is also useless unless the correct trust anchors
>> (some folks call them "root" certificates) are deployed at
>> the correct places.  This is far easier to say then accomplish.
>>
>> Eric Norman
>> http://ejnorman.blogspot.com
>>
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