2010/5/17 Santosh Rajan <[email protected]> > Unfortunately I haven't seen any concrete work for OpenID V.Next. I agree > David's strawman "OpenID Connect" has interesting properties. Unfortunately > David's strawman "tantamounts to a virtual admission that we have no better > idea's for OpenID". > > The reason i am saying this is because we seem to have got ourselves stuck > up on the idea that "Only symmetric keys will work". In spite of the fact > that I am more or less in tune with this idea, have we "investigated the > fact that asymmetric keys might be the solution to the Identity problem?". I > know this will ruffle some feathers around here, but don't you think we need > to give it a serious consideration for OpenID. >
Doesn't myopenid.com allow asymmetric keys and X.509 for single sign on via OpenID? > > And on a lighter note - > > David said "Why the name "OpenID Connect"? I'm a geek which means that > good branding (or good design) isn't my thing, but Chris Messina (who is > good at branding and design) proposed it a few months ago." > > > This is like the "beauty" claiming to be the "GEEK". And I will tell you > why. > > > After researching the OpenID story for the last few years all I saw was > that the real GEEK was "Brad Fitz", and David presumably was the "beauty" in > the OpenID story. > > And where did "Chris Messina" come into the OpenID story? Neither is he a > "geek" or a "beauty"! > > > > http://hi.im/santosh > > > > _______________________________________________ > specs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs > >
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