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

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

Let's put it this way,

It is easy to prevent phishing attacks against OpenID on the
client-side with browser extensions. In fact, I think that Firefox
will make this feature a default in their upcoming versions. It could
work exactly the same as the current trusted certificate authorities
every single web browser comes with. You will have a list of trusted
OpenID providers domains which are also cross-matched with their SSL
certificates and URLs. Done!

If firefox is not planning to implement this feature, heck I will code
it myself. This is a hello world XUL extension.

pdp

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Steven Rakick <stevenrakick () yahoo com> wrote:
> Many of you have brought up that OpenID is vulnerable
>  to phishing and have highlighted weaknesses specific
>  traditional username/password authentication.
>
>  This was the main reason I bought up Information Cards
>  in my original post. I've noticed that Beemba
>  (http://www.beemba.com) and MyOpenID
>  (http://www.myopenid.com) have both implemented
>  Information Cards as an authentication option.
>
>  Good idea?
>
>  It seems to me that if you were to rely on Information
>  Cards as opposed to username/password the phishing
>  angle is mitigated. Is this not the case?
>
>  -sr
>
>
>
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