OpenID in desktop apps

[Chris Messina]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Christopher St John <ckstjohn at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > If we accept that authentication should eventually move beyond mere
> > usernames and passwords, I think that it becomes much more obvious why we
> > should think very hard about popping out of desktop apps and into the
> > browser (or some context that allows for arbitrary authentication
> > mechanisms).
> >
>
> Chris, stop being evil :-)
>
> Yes, you. You're arguing that "in the future" it's "best for the users
> whether they like it or not" to "just do what the experts say"
> because it "will bring long term benefits although it does make
> things harder in the short term"


...

>
> But in the mean time, it's going against a lot of hard-won wisdom
> to suggest that making things _less_ convenient and _less_
> usable in the short term will win you anything other than a place
> on the (very long) list of "great authc/authz ideas that failed to
> win popular acceptance because, quite frankly, they were kind of
> a pain to use"
>
> So: make it easy now. Round off all the corners, then grease them.
> Optimize for the common case. Cut corners. Without success now,
> in the present, there is no glorious OpenID future.


Hmm. Ok. Fair enough.

I don't think I'm being "evil", but perhaps not sensible.

I usually prefer to be pragmatic and incremental in my approaches, but the
current situation has me somewhat stymied.

I like the metaphor of CardSpace, and indeed it could be offered at some
point, but for whatever reason, no one seems that keen to implement it for
mere mortals.

Any insights into why that is?

Chris

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