Hi all,

As posted a few months back, I had started working on a PHP5 OpenID library 
that I wished to port to the framework since it seemed a reasonable addition 
given our web app focus. Given the complexity of OpenID as a distributed 
authentication service there are numerous components. Each by itself is 
actually not that hard, most of the problem is putting them together with a 
solid set of integration tests.

These include wrappers for large integer (> 32 bits) libraries since bcmath 
alone is awfully slow for this compared to gmp, cryptographic algorithms, and 
even a separate extensible web service (already proposed on the wiki). The list 
of possible sub-components that could feasibly get started with include:

Zend_Service_Yadis
Zend_Crypt_DiffieHellman
Zend_Crypt_Rsa
Zend_Crypt_Hmac
Zend_Crypt_Xtea
Zend_Math_BigInteger

An actual Zend_Service_Openid would need all of the above as well as general 
file parsers. I was looking for an opinion as to whether these are acceptable 
as individual proposals. It seems to make sense rendering OpenID into it's 
reusable constituent parts rather lumping everything (and inevitably 
burying/hiding it) into the Openid namespace. I don't want to go spamming the 
wiki with 6+ proposals until I get a little feedback either :).

Any thoughts/comments on this, or OpenID in the ZF in general, are appreciated. 
:) The primary goal is to implement OpenID 1.1 and 2.0 to the extent necessary 
to authenticate. The basis of an OpenID server can be considered after.

Paddy
 
Pádraic Brady
http://blog.astrumfutura.com
http://www.patternsforphp.com






 
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