[sugar] XO identity shared via Browse

[Sebastian Silva]

2008/12/2 Luke Faraone <luke at laptop.org>:
> Oh, I accidentally moved this off-list, shall I forward this back?
Oops. By all means, its interesting.

> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 19:56, Sebastian Silva <sebastian at fuentelibre.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> (...)
>> user=laptop.
>> >
>> > It's not exactly; because in that model the laptop doesn't even make
>> > sure
>> > that anyone with a pulse was physically present at the XO, let alone
>> > that it
>> > was its "owner".
>> So then, the XO identity provider must answer this question (how?
>> user/pass? biometrics? perhaps a mere captcha (yuk) ?)

> Well, since the XO is acting as the "hardware authentication token", a
> simple "You are logging into FooBarLabs.Com, right?" dialog would suffice.
> If we're really smart, browse will be able to notify the authentication
> daemon that the user just tried to login to FooBarLabs and bypass the
> prompt, which GUI designers agree are evil.

Yay, I think we agree. A simple confirmation dialog, and if browse can
let the auth daemon (or its other name: local identity provider :-P )
know that it just tried to login...

Sounds all pretty sensible.
-- 
Sebastian Silva
Iniciativa FuenteLibre
http://blog.sebastiansilva.com/