OpenID

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Online Identity

OpenID Trends: Improved Usability and Increased Centralization

By Ben Gross

The OpenID authentication framework is the most well known of the federated user-centric identity systems. OpenID has effectively become the first commonplace single sign-on option for the Internet at large. Most sizeable Web-based service providers such as AOL, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, MySpace and Yahoo! have integrated at least limited support for OpenID. Services often run OpenID authentication side-by-side with their in-house developed authentication or as an alternate method of authentication.

Published August 26, 2010

The Promise and Problems of OpenID

by Ben Gross

New Web-based services crop up at an astonishing rate. The problem is that with each new service, a new signup process with a unique username, password, and often bits of personally identifying...