New and noteworthy in OpenID and OAuth 2/2/09

By Ben Gross
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Why Twitter’s New Security Solution Could Pave the Way to a Future Web of Mashups: Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb describes why Twitter’s initial trail and eventual rollout of OAuth for standards-based delegated authorization is important for Twitter and is an indication of where the general adoption of OAuth is going.

OpenID + OAuth: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together: TechCrunch writes about the new test between Google and Plaxo of an OpenID OAuth Extension. This extension allows the approval for an OAuth request token to be embedded in an OpenID authentication request.

Explanation: The Difference Between OpenID and OAuth: Malcolm Tredinnick writes a nice summary describing the different problems that OpenID and OAuth are trying, which mirrors the difference between authentication and authorization.

OpenID Gets Explained, Maligned, and Dropped: Lisa Hoover at OStatic covers some of the difficulties with OpenID. She makes the argument that while there are a great many theoretical users, there are far fewer actual users of OpenID.

Published February 3, 2009