Identifiers -- Re: [Ietf-http-auth] BOF proposal: making the web safe and easy forEliot's father

[Eliot Lear]

So, first an admission:

The problem really wasn't just Eliot's dad, but Eliot himself.

Now to restate the problem that he/I have:

There are too many damn passwords and keys.  This says very little about
identifiers at all.  In fact, web browsers and mail readers do a darn
good job at remembering identifiers, and if they do that much and no
more to solve the problem I don't see a security concern.  The problem
remains the password.  If you solve only that problem and do so securely
you've moved the ball substantially.

Eliot