SAN FRANCISCO -- Like others in the online world, Brad Fitzpatrick wanted to give people a way to sign in to all sorts of Web sites without needing to remember individual user names and passwords for ...

OpenID is an open, decentralized, open-source framework for user-centric digital identity. Think about all the accounts you have online: blogs, wikis, to-do lists, photo galleries. The list is endless ...

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The decision two weeks ago by Yahoo! to support the burgeoning openid initiative, where users choose their preferred user account provider for logging into other Web sites, was a defining moment for ...

During the video interview with OpenID evangelist Chris Messina I recorded earlier this year at a German conference about the state of OpenID, he expressed his wish that the Obama administration would ...

Thank goodness for Firefox. Yes, it's a great browser. Yes, it has all sorts of wonderful plugins that let me do everything from debugging my Web applications to checking the weather forecast. And, ...

It is now apparent that OpenID, a standard that allows users to securely integrate and control their online identity across all websites, has failed to gain traction and will be supplanted by ...

Security: As far as security goes, it's much easier to manage only one username and password rather than 45, right? So you could change your OpenID host password periodically just to keep things more ...

[Ed. We have recently seen a rise in interest in several new identity technologies. These technologies arise from a different set of missions than traditional enterprise focused, domain-centric ...

Last issue I predicted a bit of a slowdown, some bumps in the road perhaps even some fracturing of the OpenID community in the coming year. Scott Kveton disagrees. Well, he would as he’s CEO of ...