[Python-Dev] Offtopic: OpenID Providers

[Donald Stufft]

On Sep 5, 2013, at 2:25 PM, Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 02:16:29PM -0400, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>> 
>> On Sep 5, 2013, at 2:12 PM, Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote:
>>>  I used to use myOpenID and became my own provider using poit[1].
>>> These days I seldom use OpenID -- there are too few sites that allow
>>> full-featured login with OpenID. The future lies in OAuth 2.0.
>> 
>> The Auth in OAuth stands for Authorization not Authentication.
> 
>   There is no authorization without authentication, so OAuth certainly
> performs authentication: http://oauth.net/core/1.0a/#anchor9 ,
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5849#section-3

They are separate topics and authorization does not need to imply authentication,
it so happens that in many particular instances of OAuth you can estimate
authentication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth#OpenID_vs._pseudo-authentication_using_OAuth

Persona is the logical successor to OpenID.

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