[Microid] MicroID hashing algorithm(s) and normalization

Fred Stutzman fred at metalab.unc.edu
Thu Dec 7 12:12:03 EST 2006


On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Evan Prodromou wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-06-12 at 10:33 -0700, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>
> For someone like claimID trying to validate, they can try each of the
> identifiers they have for a person (every email address, every OpenID,
> every i-name) and see if there's a match. Since microid is so cheap to
> generate, it's not hard at all.

+1 tis true.  It is much easier to handle this on the verifier side than to 
increase complexity on the producer side.


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> ~Evan
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