Konstantin Beznosov - Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , University of British Columbia Corporate communication
Date: - Location: Eurecom
The web is essential for business and personal activities well beyond information retrieval, such online banking, financial transactions, and payment authorization, but reliable user authentication remains a challenge. OpenID is a mainstream Web single sign-on (SSO) solution intended for Internet-scale adoption. There are currently over one billion OpenID-enabled user accounts provided by major content-hosting and service providers (CSPs), e.g., Yahoo!, Google, Facebook, but only a few relying parties that allow users to use their OpenID credentials for SSO. Why is that? This talk will overview OpenID, and then discuss weaknesses of (1) the protocol and its implementations, (2) the business model behind it, and (3) the user interface. It will conclude with a discussion of a proposal for addressing some of OpenID issues.
