[whatwg] Solving the login/logout problem in HTML

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> 
> As I said at the F2F meeting in France, I don't think this is the right 
> way to go. I think moving away from passwords and HTML logins are 
> absolutely necessary.

I agree.


> There are much better identity based authentication schemes out there. 
> Many do have problems, but these problems can be addressed.

Let's address them. I don't know how to do so.


> I'd much rather find a identity based solution that significantly can 
> improve the current, really bad, situation regarding authentication.

Well, given Philip`'s description of the security problem, and the 
observation that it needs to be changed in a way that decouples it from 
HTML, I'll remove the section soon.

If anyone wants to edit it, please, take the text and run with it.

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