Re: OpenID. The future of authentication on the web?

["Petko D. Petkov" <pdp.gnucitizen () googlemail com>]

Indeed but this can be a subsystem, a feature of the OpenID provider.
For example, some OpenID providers have the feature to choose
different persons depending on the usage. So it will be easier to
safeguard a persona within one openid provider. So for example, in my
current OpenID setup I have two personas. One for daily use which is
completely useless and one for mission critical stuff. Although the
mission critical persona is not safeguarded :) (lack of
functionalities here) if such a feature is implemented, wouldn't be
that much better? :)

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Gorn <gorn () xs4all nl> wrote:
> Petko D. Petkov wrote:
>  >>
>  >
>  > As I said, if you don't trust public OpenID providers, roll your own.
>  > It is very, very, very easy.
>  >
>  You seem to miss one point, in the current online environment you are
>  not talking about 5 or 6 id/credentials but more like 20 to 30.
>  (remember each blog you post to, each mailing list each web store
>  requires its own id/credentials.) OpenID provides for the possibility to
>  group these id's by function and select the correct provider with the
>  safeguards you want for each group. An OpenID for money related
>  transactions would need more safeguards as an OpenID for lets say full
>  disclosure ;-)
>  >
>  >
>  >
>
>  FG
>
>
>
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