[Python-Dev] Offtopic: OpenID Providers (original) (raw)

Oleg Broytman phd at phdru.name
Thu Sep 5 20:25:22 CEST 2013

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

Oleg.

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