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January 17, 2008

Yahoo! OpenID

Yahoo embraces OpenID, acting as a identity provider for now, and promising consumption to come. Unfortunately, it uses the new OpenID 2.0 spec, so I don’t know of a single site where you can use it yet, but hey! It’s a start.

August 19, 2007

VeriSign’s OpenID SeatBelt Plugin

Firefox extension to bring OpenID into the browser’s chrome. (Also, Verisign’s OpenID provider now support using their PayPal Security Keys as a second-factor for authentication)

August 16, 2007

Pibb: Lets Get Ready To BarCamp!

BarCampBlock’s IRC backchannel is going to be web-accessible. If it works, it’ll be a pretty impressive feat!

May 8, 2007

ongoing ยท OpenID at Work

Sun are launching their own OpenID server, and plan to use it to allow other sites to authenticate users as “Sun employees”.

April 24, 2007

Turn your Django application in to an OpenID consumer

Simon Willison’s OpenID consuming middleware for Django. I’ll probably have a stab at mixing this with my blog comments shortly.

March 26, 2007

Beginner’s guide to OpenID phishing

Good overview of the phishing risks inherit in OpenID — Is it essentially doomed by providers limiting authentication to easily stealable usernames & passwords?

March 18, 2007

BarCampBoston - DayOneLinkDump

BarCampBoston2 got of to a roaring, if less-busy-than-planned-due-to-weather, start today.

First of all, the most important link—the one that I was asked for repeatedly throughout the day—is the source of the lolcats that I used to help time the 10-Second Introductions. You can find all the anthropomorphized cats you desire at I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?.

Onto less important matters… OpenID! If you want, you can grab a copy of my slides (though they are hopefully relatively useless if you didn’t see me present). Useful OpenID links:

And now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to exhume the presentation I gave last year, as I’ll be giving it again tomorrow morning due to “popular demand” (ie. one person asked me).

February 22, 2007

prooveme.com: strong authentication for openid

OpenID provider which uses SSL client certificates, not passwords, to authenticate. Doesn’t work terribly well (I haven’t successfully logged in anywhere with it!), but a clever idea for an unphishable OpenID. [Update: I’ve got it working a couple of places now. Not clear at whose end the remaining bugs lie.]

February 19, 2007

BBC NEWS | Technology | Net giant supports open ID scheme

BBC covers Open ID. Shame that the number of places you can sign up for an Open ID now outnumbers the number of places you can *log in with one* by about 10 to 1.

February 6, 2007

brad’s life - Microsoft & OpenID

MS are announcing CardSpace authentication for OpenID. Of course, five bucks says this goes the “embrace & extend” way of Microsoft “supporting” SPF two years ago.

January 31, 2007

Announcing Jyte: Claims, Cred & Contacts

“Jyte is a simple service that allows you to associate claims, credibility and contacts” Not quite sure what to make of this yet. It’s like a reddit for opinions, rather than URLs.

January 20, 2007

The South African XMPP Federation OpenID Server

OpenID server which uses Jabber for authentication. Give your Jabber ID and a temporary token, and it will IM you and ask for your permission to login. Very clever.

January 7, 2007

DjangoID - Trac

Django-based OpenID server. It almost seems daft *not* to be running that here.

December 23, 2006

How to use OpenID (a screencast)

Simon Willison does a screencast explaining the howtofores of OpenID. I had only a basic grasp of it before (despite implementing the plugin on this here blog), but now I understand the magic of it, I’m a convert.

December 17, 2006

phpMyID

Self-hostable OpenID server in a single PHP script.

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