Re: OpenID Security

2009-02-06 Thread Peter Watkins
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 03:43:30PM -0500, McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) wrote: 2. Which is worse, having to sort through false positives or to not perform static analysis at all and have OpenID fail once some bad guy busts the implementation so badly that everyone runs away from OpenID? What

Re: OpenID Security certification

2009-02-05 Thread Peter Watkins
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 01:34:33AM +0900, Nat Sakimura wrote: It might be worthwhile for somebody like OIDF to buy a license and run a certification program out of it. If OIDF wants to certify something, it should certify compliance to the OpenID standard. It would be good for OIDF to make any

Re: clarifying section 11.2 in draft 11 for HTML discovery?

2007-05-25 Thread Peter Watkins
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:19:08AM -0700, Josh Hoyt wrote: On 5/24/07, Peter Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shouldn't the spec clarify what is required for an HTML discovery to uphold an assertion that triggers 11.2's discovery process? The spec as it is currently written does

clarifying section 11.2 in draft 11 for HTML discovery?

2007-05-24 Thread Peter Watkins
Section 11.2 states If the Claimed Identifier was not present in the request (openid.identity was http://specs.openid.net/auth/2.0/identifier_select;), the Relying Party MUST perform discovery on the Claimed Identifier in the response to make sure that the OP is authorized to make assertions

Re: HTML discovery: SGML entities and charsets

2007-05-23 Thread Peter Watkins
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:50:32AM -0700, Josh Hoyt wrote: On 5/20/07, Claus Färber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Watkins schrieb: 7.3.3 in draft 11 says The openid2.provider and openid2.local_id URLs MUST NOT include entities other than amp;, lt;, gt;, and quot;. Other

HTML discovery: SGML entities and charsets

2007-05-18 Thread Peter Watkins
7.3.3 in draft 11 says The openid2.provider and openid2.local_id URLs MUST NOT include entities other than amp;, lt;, gt;, and quot;. Other characters that would not be valid in the HTML document or that cannot be represented in the document's character encoding MUST be escaped using the

directed identity + HTML discovery: is this right?

2007-05-18 Thread Peter Watkins
So I'd like my employer (for discussion purposes, The Great Plumbers Association, http://plumbers.co) to act as an OpenID OP. I want all our plumber members to use the same OP URL for OpenID authentication, let's say https://id.plumbers.co/ So the RP doesn't try XRI Resolution, and Yadis fails

Re: [PROPOSAL] Handle http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] Style Identifiers

2006-11-09 Thread Peter Watkins
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:16:41PM -0500, David Fuelling wrote: Couldn't one make the opposite argument -- that most people's email address NOT working when they plug it into the OpenId login field could actually be a good thing? (especially in the beginning of OpenID) Scenario #2 (WITH