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Re: Effects of OpenID or similar standards
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erwan Legrand)
Sun Nov 8 13:05:11 2009
In-Reply-To: <4AF09590.5090809@jacaranda.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:19:08 +0100
From: Erwan Legrand <erwan.legrand@gmail.com>
To: David-Sarah Hopwood <david-sarah@jacaranda.org>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:41 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood
<david-sarah@jacaranda.org> wrote:
> Jerry is absolutely correct that the practical result will be that most
> users of OpenID will become more vulnerable to compromise of a single
> password.
Do you really believe most people use different passwords for different sites?
Let's face it: most people use the same password for every single Web
site they connect to. Starting from here, I can't see OpenID becoming
much of a problem.
--
Erwan Legrand
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
-- E. W. Dijkstra
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