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by diarrhea 991 days ago
So clients are responsible for monitoring for leaks [1] and revoking affected keys themselves. What a disastrous architecture: centralized trust in potentially (provably... [1, 2]) negligent IdPs, yet substantial, distributed burden on each client to "do the right thing". That's going to go wrong.

Also, abusing OIDC: if this takes off, the hack will be ossified as effectively part of the standard, blocking its further development and adjustment, as to not break OpenPubKey.

1: https://www.wiz.io/blog/storm-0558-compromised-microsoft-key...

2: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/110820474957163710