RE: Solving password/key security when 'The World is your Computer'

2007-08-02 Thread Stu Hood
Additionally, if the online backend for Online Desktop acted as an OpenID provider (http://www.openidenabled.com/), you could be loged into a bunch of services just by logging into your desktop (whether with a memory stick or in the traditional fashion). Stu On 8/2/07, Stef Walter [EMAIL

Re: Solving password/key security when 'The World is your Computer'

2007-08-02 Thread Havoc Pennington
Stu Hood wrote: Additionally, if the online backend for Online Desktop acted as an OpenID provider ( http://www.openidenabled.com/), you could be loged into a bunch of services just by logging into your desktop (whether with a memory stick or in the traditional fashion). We could use

Solving password/key security when 'The World is your Computer'

2007-08-01 Thread Stef Walter
Just in case anyone is thinking of the same issues. A lot of discussion is going on along the lines of getting a user's desktop unbound from a physical computer, and letting the user peruse his/her settings, data from all over. One issue is that of passwords and (private) encryption keys. It