[security] Nonrepudiation, and Trusting OpenID Providers

Shearer, Charles Dylan cdsheare at nps.edu
Tue Dec 8 01:18:49 UTC 2009


Shade,

Thank you very much for the pointers -- I see we were thinking along the
same line.  

Dylan


On 12/7/09 4:56 PM, "SitG Admin" <sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com> wrote:

>> 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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