Re: OpenID Security

2009-02-06 Thread Peter Watkins
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 03:43:30PM -0500, McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) wrote: > 2. Which is worse, having to sort through false positives or to not > perform static analysis at all and have OpenID fail once some bad guy > busts the implementation so badly that everyone runs away from OpenID? What

Re: OpenID Security & certification

2009-02-05 Thread Peter Watkins
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 01:34:33AM +0900, Nat Sakimura wrote: > It might be worthwhile for somebody like OIDF to buy a > license and run a certification program out of it. If OIDF wants to certify something, it should certify compliance to the OpenID standard. It would be good for OIDF to make an

Re: clarifying section 11.2 in draft 11 for HTML discovery?

2007-05-25 Thread Peter Watkins
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:19:08AM -0700, Josh Hoyt wrote: > On 5/24/07, Peter Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Shouldn't the spec clarify what is required for an HTML discovery to > > uphold an assertion that triggers 11.2's discovery process? > > The

clarifying section 11.2 in draft 11 for HTML discovery?

2007-05-24 Thread Peter Watkins
Section 11.2 states "If the Claimed Identifier was not present in the request ("openid.identity" was "http://specs.openid.net/auth/2.0/identifier_select";), the Relying Party MUST perform discovery on the Claimed Identifier in the response to make sure that the OP is authorized to make assertio

Re: HTML discovery: SGML entities and charsets

2007-05-23 Thread Peter Watkins
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:50:32AM -0700, Josh Hoyt wrote: > On 5/20/07, Claus Färber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Peter Watkins schrieb: > > > 7.3.3 in draft 11 says > > > > > > The "openid2.provider" and "openid2.local_id" URLs

directed identity + HTML discovery: is this right?

2007-05-18 Thread Peter Watkins
So I'd like my employer (for discussion purposes, The Great Plumbers Association, http://plumbers.co) to act as an OpenID OP. I want all our plumber members to use the same OP URL for OpenID authentication, let's say https://id.plumbers.co/ So the RP doesn't try XRI Resolution, and Yadis fails be

HTML discovery: SGML entities and charsets

2007-05-18 Thread Peter Watkins
7.3.3 in draft 11 says The "openid2.provider" and "openid2.local_id" URLs MUST NOT include entities other than "&", "<", ">", and """. Other characters that would not be valid in the HTML document or that cannot be represented in the document's character encoding MUST be escaped using the perce

Re: [PROPOSAL] Handle "http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Style Identifiers

2006-11-09 Thread Peter Watkins
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:16:41PM -0500, David Fuelling wrote: > Couldn't one make the opposite argument -- that most people's email address > NOT working when they plug it into the OpenId login field could actually be > a good thing? (especially in the beginning of OpenID) > Scenario #2 (WITH e

Re: [PROPOSAL] Handle "http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Style Identifiers

2006-11-08 Thread Peter Watkins
Recordon, David wrote: > Involving DNS seems to make this too complex. If we're going to involve > DNS, we might as well re-architect Yadis to use it as yet another > discovery option. Yes, the TXT proposal seems complex. I prefer Phillip's second suggestion, but I think something more unique wou