Cristiano on Tech/Life 
Clipperz: OpenID-proxy concept gone haywire
There is clearly some demand for a password repository site done right. I myself would like a simple system that automatically saves/restores my information using a bookmarklet and allows me to login to the service with my OpenID. One fairly bad example is Clipperz which I was referred to by the creator (Marco Barulli) who I actually didn’t meet but did photograph at OpenCoffee.
The problem of Clipperz is probably not the technique, but definitely the way it was presented (although I do wonder if saving all the secure information in your browser is that save). The Clipperz site gives me a very big *nix feel as it keeps stating what kind of crypto technology is behind it, uses concepts like cards to save scripts, and requires users to “review their code”.
From a user perspective the whole work flow is very tedious, amazingly complex, and really doesn’t provide a single-click sign-on. I think the concept is very good and probably more secure than my idea, but I think they really need a designer and usability expert to help them enable simple users to use this. I did get some nice information about how a system like this works so if will ever implement my own system than I will use some of these basic concepts.
