full-disclosure - Re: OpenID. The future of authentication on the web?

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Message-ID: <261555.67029.qm@web45102.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:16:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steven Rakick <stevenrakick@...oo.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: OpenID. The future of authentication on the
	web?

Many of you have brought up that OpenID is vulnerable
to phishing and have highlighted weaknesses specific
traditional username/password authentication.

This was the main reason I bought up Information Cards
in my original post. I've noticed that Beemba
(http://www.beemba.com) and MyOpenID
(http://www.myopenid.com) have both implemented
Information Cards as an authentication option. 

Good idea?

It seems to me that if you were to rely on Information
Cards as opposed to username/password the phishing
angle is mitigated. Is this not the case?

-sr

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