Comments on: Circles of trust: disaster? or really bad idea?

By: maseone

maseone — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:59:57 +0000

Wait,

So let’s imagine that OpenID is a big hit and every authenticated website from my online bank to digg.com uses OpenID…

Now all I have to do as a hacker is hack into one place? LOL.

WAKE UP SHEEP.

and the hacker scenario isn’t even the worst of it, I do not want one entity holding my credentials to every authentication site I use – as a matter of fact, I do not want any entity other than the one I’m visiting to hold the credentials for that site.

big up,
m1

By: IdentityMeme.org

IdentityMeme.org — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:37:47 +0000

Will “open internet” IDM Migrate Towards “trust circles” ?

Eve (aka xmlgrrl) posted the following bit of musing today..

Circles of trust: disaster? or really bad idea?
http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2008/01/21/circles-of-trust-disaster-or-really-bad-idea/

..which I tend to think hits the proverbial …

By: Eve

Eve — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:44:36 +0000

A three-way comparison that is this in-depth might be unwieldy, but I’ve attempted simpler ones (for example, in those Fed ID Technologies slides I published, and all the “Venn” stuff), and so have others. Maybe JeffH can be persuaded to take on another two-way comparison task for his next paper.

It’s a good idea for Concordia at least to catalogue handy comparison resources like this. There are also some SAML/WS-Fed writeups here and there. Hey Eric, want to start a page on the wiki? :-)

By: Eric Norman

Eric Norman — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:09:47 +0000

Seems like it would be really keen if information cards were included in Jeff’s comparison.

Perhaps this is something Concordia might take on?

By: Eve

Eve — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:11:00 +0000

Wiseguy!

They’re probably somewhere in between “better than a trip to the dentist” and “greatest thing since sliced bread”, since when they succeed they’re powerful and valuable, but there may be a lot of pain involved. Personally, I have found long-lasting nasal spray to be such a huge boon that it’s hard for anything else to come close. :-)

By: Nico

Nico — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:04:59 +0000

By: Nico

Nico — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:03:59 +0000

But you never answered the tantalizing question posed by your blog entry’s title! Which is it? Disaster, really bad idea, or the greatest thing since sliced bread?