[security] Nonrepudiation, and Trusting OpenID Providers

SitG Admin sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
Tue Dec 8 00:56:49 UTC 2009


>This is because a relying party cannot tell the difference between a 
>user attempting to log in using his or her identifier, and the 
>user's OpenID provider spoofing that user to gain access to whatever 
>services the relying party provides to that user.

This is correct, yes. See this post:
http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-general/2008-July/014536.html
Also see David Fuelling's work on MultiAuth.

-Shade


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