RE: Re[2]: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-16 Thread Drummond Reed
Chris, I think you may have me mistaken for somebody else on the list (DR is also David Recordon). I'm a big fan of IdP-initiated login and privacy protection in OpenID. However as much as I think that's an important use case, there's also many use cases around using a public, "omnidirectional" i

RE: Summarizing Where We're At

2006-10-16 Thread Drummond Reed
My votes on three issues (0 on everything else): Consolidated Delegation Proposal * -1 on status quo (draft 10) * +1 on two-identifier Change default session type * +1 Bare request * +1 =Drummond -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rec

Re[2]: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-16 Thread Chris Drake
Hi Drummond, DR> ... if there is any record at all of any association between these DR> two identities, ... double-blind anonymous authentication solves this problem. The RP knows nothing more about you besides: A) you're authenticated, and/or B) you've been here before (eg: have signed up for a

security profiles

2006-10-16 Thread Hans Granqvist
The security profiles drafts that we published a few weeks back have been uploaded [1-2] to openid.net These are works in progress, so feel free to chime in. Hans [1] http://openid.net/specs/ openid-authentication-2_0-security-profiles-01.txt [2] http://openid.net/specs/ openid-

Re: Summarizing Where We're At

2006-10-16 Thread Mike Glover
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:24:25 -0700 "Recordon, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Change default session type > * +1 I'm not sure what changing the default buys us. The RP still has to create a public modulus and send it in the request in order to use DH, so there's still a positive action

RE: Notes From Draft 10

2006-10-16 Thread Recordon, David
I'm happy to drop it, just wanted to throw it out there. --David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh Hoyt Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 3:48 PM To: Marius Scurtescu Cc: Recordon, David; specs@openid.net Subject: Re: Notes From Draft 10

Re: Notes From Draft 10

2006-10-16 Thread Josh Hoyt
On 10/16/06, Marius Scurtescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just so that there is an obvious one way to do it, so that it's easier > > to get right, if I understand David's motivation. It's also easier to > > make clear in the spec. > > If ordering is not important then you are guaranteed to get i

RE: Summarizing Where We're At

2006-10-16 Thread Granqvist, Hans
I want to avoid the "wait-I-thought-we-decided-something-else" or "ahh-yes-seems-we-forgot-it-had-an-impact-there" delays . . . Spec work gain tremendously by unambiguous up-front definitions of what *exactly* is voted on. A good way to do this is to force the vote to be on an explici

Re: Notes From Draft 10

2006-10-16 Thread Josh Hoyt
On 10/16/06, Hans Granqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the security benefit of forcing the protocol to use a > specific order? I don't know of any security benefit of using a specific order. I'm pretty certain that this proposal came about to make the spec easier to read and implement. >

Re: Notes From Draft 10

2006-10-16 Thread Marius Scurtescu
On 16-Oct-06, at 3:13 PM, Josh Hoyt wrote: > On 10/16/06, Marius Scurtescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sorting of unicode strings while not terrible hard it is not trivial >> either. Why bother? The list of signed fields gives an explicit >> ordering, this is good enough IMO. > > Sorting by UTF-

Re: Notes From Draft 10

2006-10-16 Thread Hans Granqvist
Marius Scurtescu wrote: > On 16-Oct-06, at 2:44 PM, Josh Hoyt wrote: > > >>On 10/16/06, Recordon, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>6.1 Signed List Algorithm >> >>[...] >> >>>I'm thinking it would make sense to >>>change this algorithm to first alphabetically sort the arguments >>>to make

RE: Summarizing Where We're At

2006-10-16 Thread Recordon, David
And here are my votes: Request nonce and name * Take no action Authentication age * -1, write as an extension first Remove setup_url * 0 for removing, +1 for asking feedback from implementers Consolidated Delegation Proposal * -1 on status quo (draft 10) * 0 on single-identifier * +1 on

Re: Notes From Draft 10

2006-10-16 Thread Josh Hoyt
On 10/16/06, Marius Scurtescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorting of unicode strings while not terrible hard it is not trivial > either. Why bother? The list of signed fields gives an explicit > ordering, this is good enough IMO. Sorting by UTF-8-encoded octet sequence is easy. > Why would be an

Re: Notes From Draft 10

2006-10-16 Thread Marius Scurtescu
On 16-Oct-06, at 2:44 PM, Josh Hoyt wrote: > On 10/16/06, Recordon, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 6.1 Signed List Algorithm > [...] >> I'm thinking it would make sense to >> change this algorithm to first alphabetically sort the arguments >> to make >> it very clear in terms of ordering. >

Re: Notes From Draft 10

2006-10-16 Thread Josh Hoyt
On 10/16/06, Recordon, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 6.1 Signed List Algorithm [...] > I'm thinking it would make sense to > change this algorithm to first alphabetically sort the arguments to make > it very clear in terms of ordering. I think it's a good idea to say that the signed list MUST

RE: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-16 Thread Drummond Reed
+1. "Trust is not a boolean." Martin, that's very quotable. Can I attribute it to you? =Drummond -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Atkins Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 12:25 PM To: specs@openid.net Subject: Re: Identifier portabilit

Re: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-16 Thread Marius Scurtescu
On 16-Oct-06, at 2:01 PM, Josh Hoyt wrote: > On 10/16/06, Marius Scurtescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In this case you are better off opening a separate account with this >> or some other IdP. The current delegation model will not protect you >> at all. The delegate tag is in a publicly accessi

Notes From Draft 10

2006-10-16 Thread Recordon, David
While I've already incorporated many of the things I found in draft 9 into 10, there were a few things which I didn't either have the right answer to or feel that I could make the change on my own. I tried reading through the draft as if I was reading it for the first time. 4.2 Integer Representa

Re: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-16 Thread Josh Hoyt
On 10/16/06, Marius Scurtescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In this case you are better off opening a separate account with this > or some other IdP. The current delegation model will not protect you > at all. The delegate tag is in a publicly accessible Yadis document. > > I agree that anonymity is

Re: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-16 Thread Marius Scurtescu
On 16-Oct-06, at 12:24 PM, Martin Atkins wrote: > Chris Drake wrote: >> >> There seem to be a lot of people on this list who want to hate and >> loathe the IdP, and grant all power to the RP. I do not understand >> this reasoning: our users will select the IdP they trust and like, >> then they w

Re: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-16 Thread Martin Atkins
Chris Drake wrote: > > There seem to be a lot of people on this list who want to hate and > loathe the IdP, and grant all power to the RP. I do not understand > this reasoning: our users will select the IdP they trust and like, > then they will be using a multitude of possibly hostile RPs > ther

Re: Summarizing Where We're At

2006-10-16 Thread Josh Hoyt
Here are my reactions to what's outstanding: On 10/15/06, Recordon, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Request Nonce and Name > - Has been partially implemented, openid.nonce -> > openid.response_nonce, no agreement on the need of a request nonce > specifically, rather discussion has evolved in

Re: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-16 Thread Hans Granqvist
Chris Drake wrote: > There seem to be a lot of people on this list who want to hate and > loathe the IdP, and grant all power to the RP. I do not understand > this reasoning: our users will select the IdP they trust and like, > then they will be using a multitude of possibly hostile RPs > thereaf

Re: Re[2]: [PROPOSAL] request nonce and name

2006-10-16 Thread Grant Monroe
On 10/14/06, Dick Hardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also note that URL parameters are not secured by TLS in HTTPS. > > -- Dick URL parameters are sent with the path in the GET line of the HTTP request after the TLS handshake, so URL parameters ARE secured. -- Grant Monroe JanRain, Inc. ___

RE: Discussion: RP Yadis URL?

2006-10-16 Thread Recordon, David
Right, I'd agree with that. This would just be the first case where the Auth spec doesn't provide at least one service type for the file. In any case, adding the ability seems important. --David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Atk

Re: openid.identifier vs openid.identity

2006-10-16 Thread Martin Atkins
Dick Hardt wrote: > Given that the spec uses the word identifier throughout, it would > make sense that the parameter would be called that. > > Perhaps in changing what the parameter contains, we can rename it, > and keep openid.identity for backward compatibility? > I think this a good idea

Re: Discussion: RP Yadis URL?

2006-10-16 Thread Martin Atkins
Recordon, David wrote: > > I'm torn if this parameter should be added to the spec at this time or > not. Adding the parameter is conceptually simple, though I don't think > there is agreement on what the RP should be publishing in their Yadis > file. There is the section > http://openid.net/spec

Re: IdP term in spec (was RE: Delegation discussion summary)

2006-10-16 Thread Martin Atkins
Drummond Reed wrote: > Suggestion: sidestep the issue completely and in the spec -- and everywhere > else -- just call it OpenID provider. It's a simple concatenation of > "OpenID" and "service provider", so everyone gets it, but nobody will > associate it with SAML or federation or anything else.

Re: Delegation discussion summary

2006-10-16 Thread Martin Atkins
Dick Hardt wrote: > > I don't think we actually need to have a specific name when talking > to users. it is a site that supports OpenID. I agree. ___ specs mailing list specs@openid.net http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/specs