Posts Tagged “openid”
EIC 2010: On national electronic ID cards, Interoperability and Trust Frameworks
by Christian Scholz on May 9, 2010
One topic of the European Identity Conference last week in Munich was definitely how to identify citizens on the net. How to do that in general is a problem being worked on for some years and it’s still not solved. (…)
Introducing WebFinger and a python client
by Christian Scholz on October 12, 2009
One repeatedly upcoming problem is what identifier a normal user would use for identifying his or her own user account. One approach is apparently OpenID in which case it is a HTTP URL. For the one or other reason though (…)
Are Facebook vanity URLs paving the way for OpenID?
by Christian Scholz on June 9, 2009
Vanity URLs are a strange thing to have, at least if you have so many of them. You have one on Twitter, on MySpace, on YouTube etc. and soon also on Facebook, starting on saturday. They are going to be (…)
Linden Lab asks: Is your password secure? I ask: Do you support OpenID?
by Christian Scholz on January 17, 2009
On the Second Life blog you can read the question “Is your password secure” followed by some hints on how to make a good password choice, to not use the same password everywhere and so on. But the real question (…)
XMAS OpenID News
by Christian Scholz on December 24, 2008
Here is a special XMAS present for you: More OpenID! :-) DailyMotion implements an OpenID login As you can see in the screenshot below you now have quite some options to login to dailymotion.com, including OpenID. They also explain what (…)
Windows Live ID goes OpenID
by Christian Scholz on October 28, 2008
Good news everybody: Microsoft’s Windows Live ID is now officially embracing OpenID by becoming an OpenID provider. This means that you can login to any OpenID enabled service with your Windows Live ID. As it says there: All Windows Live (…)