Comments on: Degrees of anonymity http://www.econometa.com/archives/48 The economy of stuff about stuff Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:22:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Adam http://www.econometa.com/archives/48/comment-page-1#comment-4646 Adam Sun, 01 Oct 2006 17:00:56 +0000 http://www.econometa.com/archives/48#comment-4646 Hi RBC, I'm a big fan of OpenID, and we've been trying to think of how it could fit with PrefPass. It's interesting, because the two systems solve different problems: OpenID is a way to prove that you own a URL, while PrefPass lets a site know what you’re interested in and allows it to recognize you as the same visitor the next time you show up. One good thing about the anonymous PrefPass approach is that it completely avoids any need for crypto, server-side libraries, or defenses against security attacks — there’s nothing to steal! But of course that means that PrefPass can't help you prove that you're someone in particular, so that you can leave signed blog comments, etc. as with OpenID. BTW, I didn't find anything at idkeed.com, was that a typo? Hi RBC,

I’m a big fan of OpenID, and we’ve been trying to think of how it could fit with PrefPass. It’s interesting, because the two systems solve different problems: OpenID is a way to prove that you own a URL, while PrefPass lets a site know what you’re interested in and allows it to recognize you as the same visitor the next time you show up.

One good thing about the anonymous PrefPass approach is that it completely avoids any need for crypto, server-side libraries, or defenses against security attacks — there’s nothing to steal! But of course that means that PrefPass can’t help you prove that you’re someone in particular, so that you can leave signed blog comments, etc. as with OpenID.

BTW, I didn’t find anything at idkeed.com, was that a typo?

]]> By: RBC Man http://www.econometa.com/archives/48/comment-page-1#comment-4604 RBC Man Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:36:09 +0000 http://www.econometa.com/archives/48#comment-4604 Probably marginally along the line, I wonder if PrefPass should be combined/integrated (through some API & protocol) w/ OpenID (e.g. idkeed.com) where an user's Prefs and PrefPass's personalization capabilities (through Javascript) are blended w/ OpenID system's autentication capability.... Thoughts? Probably marginally along the line, I wonder if PrefPass should be combined/integrated (through some API & protocol) w/ OpenID (e.g. idkeed.com) where an user’s Prefs and PrefPass’s personalization capabilities (through Javascript) are blended w/ OpenID system’s autentication capability…. Thoughts?

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