Mozilla BrowserID

[Allen Tom]

Email address recycling is an important issue, but since the status quo
(password reset via email) doesn't address the recycling issue, perhaps it's
not necessary to solve it.

It is important that RPs allow users to change their email address to
prevent their RP account from being taken over if they lose the email
address that they used to create the account. Perhaps that's good enough?

Allen


On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Nat Sakimura <sakimura at gmail.com> wrote:

> One of my concern around BrowserID is that it does not seem to take care of
> the email address recycling.
> Email address verification "certificate" may be short lived but it does not
> solve the impersonation problem at all.
> There has to be some ways of canonicalizing email address into a
> non-re-assignable identifier.
> Otherwise we are screwed and BrowserID spec does not yet provide the
> solution.
>
> As a conceptual solution, BrowserID is interesting if the browsers
> implements it and if we can get rid of BrowserID.org.
> I would like to see more work towards. it.
>
> =nat
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Allen Tom <allentomdude at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I totally agree - I was referring to a hypothetical protocol that's
>> similar to OpenID Connect, but uses email addresses as the true identifier.
>>
>> I don't see how BrowserID would be better than a version of OpenID Connect
>> that only uses email addresses as the one true identifier.
>>
>> Allen
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> There is an advantage to throwing out the bad identifiers, It allows the
>>> user interface to be made a lot simpler as anything not an email address is
>>> wrong.
>>>
>>> No URLs, no XRIs.
>>>
>>>
>>> As for what to do if the email provider does not provide BrowserID, I
>>> don't think it is a problem, I would probably separate the accounts in any
>>> case.
>>>
>>>
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