proposal: RP display
Brad Fitzpatrick
brad at danga.com
Tue Sep 19 23:48:28 UTC 2006
Drawbacks:
- false sense of security
Can't badguy.com just crypto sign a PayPal logo hosted on badguy.com?
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Dick Hardt wrote:
> Problem:
>
> Identity of the RP is based on either the return_url or trust_root.
> While these strings have the advantage that they are somewhat
> verifiable as they are where the response will be sent, neither of
> these are user friendly. An organization name and/or a graphic can be
> more communicative. Additionally, when the user is wanting to review
> something that happened with an RP later on, the URL may be quite
> cryptic.
>
> The question arises, how does the IdP verify that the string or
> graphic is really associated with the RP? Given that the user started
> off at the RP, and that somehow the user knows the RP is really the
> RP (a separate issue), then the user will be surprised by a graphic
> or string that is not related to the site the RP. In other words, if
> the user is being phished, a cryptic URL is not going to provide the
> user with anything they have not already seen in the browser. An org
> name and/or graphic can be verified to belonging to the RP by a 3rd
> party, so the IdP can show the user if the displayed info has been
> verified or not.
>
> CardSpace is supporting signed graphics and I think is looking at the
> CA cert to check org name, so OpenID would be able to use a similar
> mechanism.
>
> Proposal:
> The additional of two optional parameters:
> = 'openid.logo_url - URL of either a signed or unsigned graphic
> (size TBD)
> = 'openid.org_name' - organization name of RP
>
> Benefits:
> + improved user experience
> + mechanism for IdP to display verified data about RP to user
>
> Drawbacks:
> - additional work required for IdP to support, although IdP could
> ignore
>
>
>
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