From: fr33domlover Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 18:54:53 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Express thoughts about OpenID X-Git-Tag: debian/3.20140815~43 X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/commitdiff_plain/05dc871a5621b0b7b1bba2887134824e1f47ab2a?hp=236c63d5b68c2fe57a87b952bd9968ff685c86a2 Express thoughts about OpenID --- diff --git a/doc/news/openid/discussion.mdwn b/doc/news/openid/discussion.mdwn index bc9856ad9..5abdd5a13 100644 --- a/doc/news/openid/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/news/openid/discussion.mdwn @@ -94,3 +94,21 @@ One caveat to the above is that, of course, OpenID is a distributed trust system ---- Submitting bugs in the OpenID components will be difficult if OpenID must be working first... + +------ + +# Privacy and Decentralization + +Maybe I don't understand OpenID well enough, but it looks like there are just few providers, most +of which are huge companies or belong to such, and I don't trust them to verify me identity +or to not track all my logins. I'll use OpenID only if I can make my own home server +be my OpenID provider, and if doing so doesn't interfere with the design and security and +privacy of OpenID, and doesn't require me to use centrally-signed certificates or pay to some +company or anything like that. + +Is it possible to use OpenID in a way keeping the user in full control and allowing any user to +have their personal provider without damaging the architecture behind OpenID? + +I'm worried, at least until the issue is cleared. + +-- [[fr33domlover]]