OpenSAML dependency on Velocity breaks application

[Tom van den Berge]

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Chad La Joie <lajoie at itumi.biz> wrote:

> Well, it's not anything to do with the project.  It's just the nature
> of federated identity management (whether SAML, OpenID, or whatever
> proprietary thing Google and Facebook are using today).
>
> In that environment there are two things that can happen at login
> time.  Either you have an account with an identity provider that is
> accepted by the application you're attempting to login in to (the list
> you see is all the ones we currently accept) or you don't.  If you
> don't, then you need to create one.  In our case, ProtectedNetwork
> happens to be an identity provider that allows anyone to register a
> new account.
>

The problem for me is in your last phrase. I don't know what or who
ProtectedNetwork is. To me, the name already sounds like it's a scam ;)

I wouldn't want a party that I don't know or trust to manage my identity.
So to answer your other question of it's matter of effort to fill out a
form, or a matter of security/privacy: it's both.


Cheers,
Tom


>
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Tom van den Berge
> <tom.vandenberge at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am not aware of the structure of your company, and therefore surprised
> to
> > be able to choose from a range of educational institutions, or choose a
> very
> > specific one if mine isn't listed... I think your login/signup procedure
> > makes a number of assumptions that don't apply to me, or at least they
> are
> > not clear to me.
>
>
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