Express thoughts about OpenID

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 Submitting bugs in the OpenID components will be difficult if OpenID must be working first...
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+# Privacy and Decentralization
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+Maybe I don't understand OpenID well enough, but it looks like there are just few providers, most
+of which are huge companies or belong to such, and I don't trust them to verify me identity
+or to not track all my logins. I'll use OpenID only if I can make my own home server
+be my OpenID provider, and if doing so doesn't interfere with the design and security and
+privacy of OpenID, and doesn't require me to use centrally-signed certificates or pay to some
+company or anything like that.
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+Is it possible to use OpenID in a way keeping the user in full control and allowing any user to
+have their personal provider without damaging the architecture behind OpenID?
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+I'm worried, at least until the issue is cleared.
+
+-- [[fr33domlover]]