Proposal: An anti-phishing compromise

Paul Madsen paulmadsen at rogers.com
Thu Feb 1 22:42:25 UTC 2007


sorry, trying to straddle worlds/terminology

OpenID                      SAML
    RP          ==     SP (Service Provider)
    OP         ==     IDP (Identity Provider)

Josh Hoyt wrote:
> On 2/1/07, Paul Madsen <paulmadsen at rogers.com> wrote:
>> Hi Josh, do I understand correctly that the motivation for your proposal
>> is not 'fix' the phish problem, but to simply hilite it so that RPs will
>> begin to put pressure on their OPs to move to something beyond 
>> passwords?
>>
>> If this is the case, perhaps allowing an SP to add it to its request for
>> authentication would give a direct (and loggable)  mechanism by which
>> the RP can provide feedback to the OP product managers?
>
> What's an SP as opposed to an RP?
>
> Josh
>
>

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