[OpenID] persistent, non-recycleable identifiers

SitG Admin sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
Tue Dec 1 23:06:20 UTC 2009


>Who is authoritative for a Subject will depend on the trust model.
>In the common case it would be based on whoever controls the 
>signing/SSL certificate for the domain name in the URL.

It would be excellent if the common OpenID libraries could exceed 
modern browsers' security model, in this respect; the root CA's are a 
group from within which individual members may act in effective 
anonymity. Being able to discriminate between different CA's would 
also lower the bar to alternatives like self-signed certificates (or 
someone using their own CA).

-Shade


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