[oauth] Re: Authentication API protected with OAuth

2009-01-29 Thread chris . messina
The PIN could actually be delivered out of band at the time of authorization (via SMS, for example). I agree that more shared secrets doesn't necessarily help things, but it's like FriendFeed's Remote Key... I'm not a huge fan of it since it puts the burden on the user to remember yet another

[oauth] Re: Authentication API protected with OAuth

2009-01-29 Thread Brian Eaton
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:41 PM, George Fletcher gffle...@aol.com wrote: The request is only valid if the receiving authentication system can generate the signature using the password for that user. Lots of authentication servers can't do that, because they do not keep a clear-text version of