[lug] Openid [was Re: Yubikey]

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Sat Oct 16 20:33:21 MDT 2010


Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:51:52 -0600
> "David L. Anselmi"<anselmi at anselmi.us>  wrote:
 >>
>> can I run my openid on my own webserver? I think so. If I could, why would I bother using one
>> from Google et. al?
 >
> You can, but it's a massive pain to setup from what I understand. ;)
[...]
> "Love the site" - foo at google
>
> "Love the site" -
> foo at just-registered-personal-openid-site-could-be-spammer
>
> So, it comes down to the same sort of thing as email/web/etc. You can
> run your own server, but you will have to deal with the admin overhead
> and trust issues.

Good.  I trust kevin at tummy.com much more than <random name>@google.

Dave



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