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Open ID and Web Security
INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND OPERATION MANAGEMENT
Lys Rodríguez de Castro Gonzáles 29484 Verónica Herrera Mestizo 30091 Manuela Oberhof 29477 Minyeong Kang 30084

01/02/2011
19/01/2010

1. Explain why OpenID offer users greater convenience and security than the current system

By using the current system, convenience and security are considered as problems, because the different sites have a different ID for the same user and also because most of this sites are not prepared to focus on security.
Getting to a web page using an Open ID, …show more content…

Even that the identity provider would solve the security issue; it also can be a weak point in our connection. If there is some kind of phishing into the Open ID service, all our information and passwords are there, so the one who gets into the system could get in our websites or modify our information so that we could not enter again.
Another interesting point to take into account is related to the website we visit and we access to through the Open ID. Many companies rely on user-registration forms to gather information about their clients and/or potential clients. By using an identity provider this kind of information disappears or is hidden, so the companies will need to get the customers data through a different way, which would be costly and hard.

3. Would you consider using an identity provider to access content on the Web? Why or why not?
In our opinion the identity provider is a useful tool; it is a new method that people can use in order to stop giving their personal information to many sites in the web which are not secure enough. It is also easier to remember just one login name and one password instead of having one for each site. Even though, we don’t think that the security issue could be a advantage for them; for example if somebody gets access to your account at an Open ID provider he may get access to any site

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