Comments on: Using email as OpenID http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/using-email-as-openid/ Personal Blog - Chris Saad Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:19:18 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Facebook Vanity URLS are not what you think « Paying Attention http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/using-email-as-openid/#comment-1098 Facebook Vanity URLS are not what you think « Paying Attention Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:43:32 +0000 http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/?p=126#comment-1098 [...] though, we should be able to use our own/personal email address and have it resolve to an OpenID for true, federated and open addressable [...] [...] though, we should be able to use our own/personal email address and have it resolve to an OpenID for true, federated and open addressable [...]

]]> By: A Quantum Immortal » Blog Archive » A survey of open APIs http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/using-email-as-openid/#comment-992 A Quantum Immortal » Blog Archive » A survey of open APIs Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:19:30 +0000 http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/?p=126#comment-992 [...] here is an interesting post about using email addresses as OpenID. When this happens, it might help bring in the [...] [...] here is an interesting post about using email addresses as OpenID. When this happens, it might help bring in the [...]

]]> By: The Single Sign-On War Will Ruin OpenID http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/using-email-as-openid/#comment-814 The Single Sign-On War Will Ruin OpenID Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:44:06 +0000 http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/?p=126#comment-814 [...] for­ Ope­n­­I­D i­s some­t­hi­n­­g Chris Saad t­alk­e­d ab­o­ut­ in­ [...] [...] for­ Ope­n­­I­D i­s some­t­hi­n­­g Chris Saad t­alk­e­d ab­o­ut­ in­ [...]

]]> By: SitePoint Blogs » The Single Sign-On War Will Ruin OpenID http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/using-email-as-openid/#comment-813 SitePoint Blogs » The Single Sign-On War Will Ruin OpenID Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:37:07 +0000 http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/?p=126#comment-813 [...] the password box they’re used to. Using email addresses in place of URIs for OpenID is something Chris Saad talked about in [...] [...] the password box they’re used to. Using email addresses in place of URIs for OpenID is something Chris Saad talked about in [...]

]]> By: Jonathan Vanasco http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/using-email-as-openid/#comment-762 Jonathan Vanasco Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:50:05 +0000 http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/?p=126#comment-762 It would be nice to see in the the specs a forced hostname... like.. chris.saad@ANYTHING.com becomes http://eaut.anything.com/chris.saad or putting the name of the eaut server in the dns record like spf does i don't like how the openid delegation can turn into a circle of searching. i'd like to do one search at most. It would be nice to see in the the specs a forced hostname…

like..

chris.saad@ANYTHING.com
becomes
http://eaut.anything.com/chris.saad

or putting the name of the eaut server in the dns record like spf does

i don’t like how the openid delegation can turn into a circle of searching. i’d like to do one search at most.

]]> By: Chris Messina http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/using-email-as-openid/#comment-759 Chris Messina Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:34:46 +0000 http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/?p=126#comment-759 I'd also add that Ma.gnolia currently supports EAUT -- which should be part of its M2 open source offering. I’d also add that Ma.gnolia currently supports EAUT — which should be part of its M2 open source offering.

]]> By: Luke Sontag http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/using-email-as-openid/#comment-758 Luke Sontag Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:59:51 +0000 http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/?p=126#comment-758 Very much agree that OpenID has usability issues that must be refined before its ready for mom. In line with that we've spun up labs.vidoop.com as a place to outline some of our thinking and deliver code to the community. As Chris M. mentioned EAUT and emailtoid.net are two projects from that group. Identity in the Browser (IDIB) is another that helps to solve the usability and security problems. It's "tech preview" at this stage, but hopefully it gives folks something to think about. Watch for more soon. Cheers, -Luke labs.vidoop.com Very much agree that OpenID has usability issues that must be refined before its ready for mom. In line with that we’ve spun up labs.vidoop.com as a place to outline some of our thinking and deliver code to the community.

As Chris M. mentioned EAUT and emailtoid.net are two projects from that group. Identity in the Browser (IDIB) is another that helps to solve the usability and security problems. It’s “tech preview” at this stage, but hopefully it gives folks something to think about.

Watch for more soon.

Cheers,

-Luke

labs.vidoop.com

]]> By: Jonathan Nguyen http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/using-email-as-openid/#comment-756 Jonathan Nguyen Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:55:02 +0000 http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/?p=126#comment-756 Damn good that people are thinking down this path because it's a pain in the backside to continually have to come up with IDs for every new site you sign up to. I have a clickpass account and it helps but I wish more people would start using OpenID! My other issue is I hate signing up to every new 2.0 site and leaving credentials in their care. They may not exist next week, what happens to all my info? It would be nice if there was a PayPal equivalent and you didn't have to enter your identity all the time but these sites just intrisically trust the identifier. Damn good that people are thinking down this path because it’s a pain in the backside to continually have to come up with IDs for every new site you sign up to.

I have a clickpass account and it helps but I wish more people would start using OpenID!

My other issue is I hate signing up to every new 2.0 site and leaving credentials in their care. They may not exist next week, what happens to all my info? It would be nice if there was a PayPal equivalent and you didn’t have to enter your identity all the time but these sites just intrisically trust the identifier.

]]> By: Chris Saad http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/using-email-as-openid/#comment-755 Chris Saad Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:11:06 +0000 http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/?p=126#comment-755 Excellent Chris - has this been implemented anywhere? What's holding it up do you think? Excellent Chris – has this been implemented anywhere? What’s holding it up do you think?

]]> By: Chris Messina http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/using-email-as-openid/#comment-754 Chris Messina Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:00:49 +0000 http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/?p=126#comment-754 As Pfefferle said, we've already implemented this solution (called EAUT) and have developed a specification that email providers can implement in order to provide OpenIDs for their members. It takes advantage of directed identity in OpenID 2.0 and XRDS-Simple: http://eaut.org/specs/1.0/ We have a mapper currently up at emailtoid.net. Take a look and let us know what you think. I also blogged about this in June: http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2008/06/22/announcing-emailtoid-mapping-email-addresses-to-openids/ ;) As Pfefferle said, we’ve already implemented this solution (called EAUT) and have developed a specification that email providers can implement in order to provide OpenIDs for their members. It takes advantage of directed identity in OpenID 2.0 and XRDS-Simple:

http://eaut.org/specs/1.0/

We have a mapper currently up at emailtoid.net. Take a look and let us know what you think.

I also blogged about this in June:

http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2008/06/22/announcing-emailtoid-mapping-email-addresses-to-openids/

;)

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