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

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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:50:57 -0400
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: "Petko D. Petkov" <pdp.gnucitizen@...glemail.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: OpenID. The future of authentication on the
	web?

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:13:38 -0000, "Petko D. Petkov" said:

> Not always. I think complexity is the enemy of security. The simpler
> the system is the less chance to screw up, the more secure it is. It
> is much easier to secure a single port then a class B network, don't
> you think?

Not always - there's a *lot* of /16's out there that the answer is simply
"airgap it and be done".  On the other hand, trying to actually secure the
traffic that wanders by on port 80 is a bitch, given all the XSS bugs and bugs
in crappy PHP applications and so on...

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