openid

Website authentications are not regulated on the Internet which means that every website or service practically uses their own authentication that only uses on their site but not on other sites on the Internet.

OpenID tries to change that by giving users one ID that they can use to sign up for many different websites and services. Many major websites and companies already supported OpenID including Google, Facebook, Yahoo, MySpace, Wordpress and AOL.

It basically means that users who have, say a Gmail account, can use the information from that account to sign up for Facebook. This works either by connecting the two services (sign in to your Google Account to create a Facebook login) or by using a specific user name (for instance your Google profile URL) to sign up for another service.

The main benefits of OpenID are an accelerated sign up process, greater control over the online identity and better security.

You'll find bloggers talking about OpenID at sites like those run by Don Martelli and Ben Werdmuller.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “openid”

 

• Identity Federations Status Report – January 2012

  
  Feide RnD — Authority: 94
  GÉANT Identity Federations currently have a lot of ongoing activities. Here is a summary of what we are working on, and the current status. Federation Lab › Test Federation Goal: allow new SPs and IdPs to easily connect to a set of available entities that are available with no contract neccessary. ...
  6 days ago

• OpenID Connect JWT and IDToken proof of concept implementations in javascript

  
  Feide RnD — Authority: 94
  To better understand JWTs and IDTokens I did a proof of concept implementation of JWT and IDtokens in Javascript. I did this 6 months ago, but just realized that I never referred to the work. I’m not sure how useful the work is, because it might be updated due to changes in the spec, and it is not feature complete. ...
  2 weeks ago

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