There's nothing to stop users from choosing a long identifier composed of random characters from the base64 character set. In practice, this doesn't seem that happen that often...
Allen On 5/26/10 5:26 PM, "SitG Admin" <[email protected]> wrote: >> Users who want to use their Flickr Photostream url as an OpenID are "forced" >> to pick a vanity Flickr URL. > > So there's nothing to stop them from picking a vanity Flickr URL that > is indistinguishable from a machine-generated, "not for human > consumption" URL? > > We say "human readable" but I think what it means is "CAN be human > readable", in the technical sense that it is not prevented outright. > There is still no assurance, even before mixing different languages > into this, that other humans will find it to be "readable". _______________________________________________ specs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs
