On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:25:22PM +0400, Oleg Broytman wrote:
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 02:16:29PM -0400, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:
On Sep 5, 2013, at 2:12 PM, Oleg Broytman <phd@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
Sortof.... The way OAuth looks to me, it's designed to prove that a given client is authorized to perform an action. It's not designed to prove that the given client is a specific person. In some cases, you really want to know the latter and not merely the former. So I think in these situations Donald's separation of Authz and Authn makes sense. -Toshio