I don't wish to advocate OpenID exactly (although I do think it's neat). I actually like Bitcard better, but nobody besides rt.cpan uses it as far as I know.

...most single signon technologies the registration process is the most challenging part...

How hard would it be to switch identities and change which info you share with each site? I don't think CA/PKI is really set up for that kind of identity management. But the real problem is, I can't see my mom signing up for and maintaining a keyring of x509 signatures — dealing with keys and dealing with the expirations — but I can see her using things like OpenID.

There's a video of a guy setting up a myopenid account in 8 seconds. He then uses it to log into a wiki.

The CACERT stuff will never actually be included in MSIE, but it's a nice idea. One way it blows OpenID out of the water is that if your identity server goes down, you can't log into anything; which obviously isn't true with CA/PKI (aside from revocations).

Someone just pointed out to me that it's almost worse than I just said. If you use the OpenID authentication delegation so you can use your own URL as your identity, then if either site goes down you can't log into anything.

-Paul

In reply to Re^2: Concerning Single Sign-on, Bitcard (TypeKey), and OpenID, CACERT client certificate by jettero
in thread Concerning Single Sign-on, Bitcard (TypeKey), and OpenID by jettero

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