[Python-Dev] Offtopic: OpenID Providers

[Oleg Broytman]

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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