OpenID

Introduction

OpenID is about users proofing to each other, that the individual controls a URL. OpenID does not specify how the users ensure that they control the URL.

In fact most users don't do that at all: The URL is usually hosted at some web server and at least the administrators of that server farm have factually more control of the end users URL than the users themself. Let alone that the administrators often enough don't know how little of their own control is left over, when intruders evaded the servers.

Askemos empowers users factually own and control their URL's in the presence of byzantine failure of their web host providers as long as the majority of servers doesn't fail at once.

Links

http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/07/1910221

https://www.myopenid.com/directory