Discovery of an OpenID session at an OP

Andrew Arnott andrewarnott at gmail.com
Tue Dec 15 03:48:32 UTC 2009


Shade,

Just as an aside: do you know that saying "yes" to the save password prompt
can help protect you against phishing?  If the browser auto-fills your
password on your *real* Provider, it won't do it on a fake copy.  So it's a
clue to you that you're being phished.

--
Andrew Arnott
"I [may] not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death
your right to say it." - S. G. Tallentyre


On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 7:40 PM, SitG Admin <sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
> wrote:

> Now the difficult part. We need the browser to maintain a list of the
>> user's OP's with their endpoints, and the browser can ask the user which OP
>> he would like to use.
>>
>
> With due privacy settings; most browsers prompt me before "saving" my
> password, GOOD browsers let me disable the prompt entirely since I know the
> answer will always be "no" ;)
>
>
>  This can also be done if all OP's were to advertise to the browser, their
>> endpoints whenever a user creates a new account with the OP, or when the
>> user visits his home page at the OP. eg.
>>
>
> If my OP is only identifying *me*, does it still need to advertise a
> generic "all users" endpoint, or will this point be moot since all
> single-user OP libraries will act no differently than multi-user OP's?
>
> -Shade
>
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