On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:07:43PM +0200, Till Maas wrote:
On Thu May 29 2008, Mike McGrath wrote:
Hey guys, so the last little bits are in good shape for the OpenID provider we're attempting to be. Don't go announcing this to others yet. Lets test it out, if it breaks something let us know. We'll be announcing it officially soon. You can, for example, log in to livejournal.com with:
The login to livejournal worked for me, too. But after I have seen how it works, I think it is too insecure to use the FAS password for authentication. This makes it pretty easy for any openid user to get the FAS password, because instead of really forwarding someone to the FAS homepage, one could just present the FAS login form to get the password. Here is an interesting blog article about security considerations wrt. openid: http://idcorner.org/2007/08/22/the-problems-with-openid/
A possible solution to the phishing issue might be to only allow ssl client auth and not a login/password for a.fp.org/accounts/openid/login this doesn't stop the phishing site asking for a password but the difference might be enough for the user to notice that something is wrong.
I am not sure that I see any value in OpenID in any case, there are very few OpenID consumers that I know about.
Kostas