2005-05-20 16:55:27.081159+00 by Dan Lyke 3 comments
Some folks over at LiveJournal have come up with a single sign-on system called OpenID. It's a lot like a subset of LID, and I'm not terribly excited about it because it seems to be a big step backwards in many ways, but if they end up adopting it I'll make sure that Flutterby can use it. As soon as the spec settles a bit, I'll probably also hack things so that my LID URL can also double as an OpenID URL.
[ related topics: Interactive Drama LID (Lightweight IDentity) ]
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#Comment You sort of made: 2005-05-27 23:16:59.954116+00 by: baylink
backed off on LID, no?
I can't see how they can get anywhere with LID; the "really is who they say" and "keep people from linking the transactions" things seem incompatible.
#Comment Re: made: 2005-05-27 23:26:48.360324+00 by: Dan Lyke
Actually, I've been hoping to use LID![[Wiki]](/adbanners/lookingglass.png){kind=small}
as the basis for some of my future web apps, but some of the other infrastructure that I'd hoped was going to happen hasn't. I may have to write it myself, but I'm trying to avoid anything that's not 3d animation related coding-wise right now.
I don't really find the "really is who they say" thing an issue, for most of what I want LID or even OpenID for my real concern is "same person, two places". Solve the easy problem because we can, and wait 'til we learn more to deal with the hard one.
#Comment Re: made: 2005-05-29 23:00:10.940606+00 by: Shawn
I don't see it so much a "really is who they say" thing as it is "really is who they say they say they are" - kind of like how we use digital signatures with key pairs. A signed e-mail from me doesn't prove that it's from Shawn S****. It proves that it was sent from someone in possession of my private key. Ostensibly, this is the entity that my public key says it identifies - me.