Requiring Pseudonymous Identifier
SitG Admin
sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
Thu May 14 03:36:26 UTC 2009
>Attributes like group membership belong in AX, not in the identifier.
>
>I suspect the idea is to have a pseudonymous identifier that
>discloses nothing about the person using it other than the fact that
>they can assert the same ID each time they return to prevent
>correlation.
To further prevent correlation, the OP may wish to support users in
authenticating as members of a group - *in such a way* that
individual users cannot be distinguished from one another. If not for
that, RP's could correlate information over time, establishing
theoretical profiles of the users.
I think one compromise could be to use a traditional identifier, and
then use AX to signal to the RP that the OP might vouch for more than
one individual having that URI.
-Shade
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