Re: Web ID as passwordless authentication for debian web services [was: Re: Developer repositories for Debian]
On 2013-05-17 at 10:08:20, Olivier Berger wrote:
> AFAIU, I guess that, at least from the user-friendliness POV, the main
> perceptible difference, is :
> - OpenID uses a URL as a person's identifier : may or not be easily
> copied/remembered/dictated
> - WebID uses a URL too, same problems (there are other benefits over
> OpenID, however, but limiting this post to this aspect of user
> friendliness only)
> - BrowserID uses a "mail like" identifier, which we seem to have gotten
> used to remember more easily, it seems.
>
> There are tons of other aspects to compare, of course, but from the
> marketing POV, these are quite importants ones ;)
I would argue that protecting user privacy is also relevant in the context
of being friendly to users ;)
>From that point of view, OpenID leaks (to your IdP) the list of sites you
log into whereas BrowserID is designed to prevent that. I don't know about
WebID.
Francois
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