Requiring Pseudonymous Identifier

SitG Admin sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
Sun May 17 08:39:58 UTC 2009


>Once the RP has the endpoint they can do an identity-less request to 
>the OP for the session that is currently logged in.
>
>The OP returns what is the openID equivalent of a bearer token in 
>that it is about whoever presents it as it lacks a 
>"Subject"/claimed_id.

OP chaining? Assuming the user is known to the first OP, and that the 
user is allright with this first OP knowing what other OP the user 
wants to vouch for their identity, I'd wonder whether the first OP 
would feel entitled to make its own decisions about who the user 
should be allowed to trust. Such matters should not be addressed in 
the spec, but I wonder if the school's XRD file (the same one that 
said "members of this group URI can be treated as Us") could also 
include a whitelist of OP's the school trusted to vouch for their 
students' identity. Wouldn't stop OP's determined to do so from not 
passing on user's choice of OP, but might provide an alternative to 
the first OP having to be entirely in charge of that.

-Shade



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