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Death to Passport, hail OpenID

OpenID is a distributed identity system, but one that’s actually distributed and doesn’t entirely crumble if one company turns evil or goes out of business.

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An OpenID-enabled site/blog lets you authenticate using your existing login from your homesite (whether that’s on your own server or a hosted service) without giving away your password to the 3rd-party site you’re visiting, or making a new account there, or giving away your email address.

And it’s secure, and can run entirely in the browser without extensions, without moving between pages.

This was written by Serge van Ginderachter. Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2005, at 12:17. Filed under Archive. Tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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  1. Serge van Ginderachter » Blog Archive » OpenID gets Verisign support on Thursday, May 18, 2006 at 21:53

    [...] About a year ago I reported about OpenID as a Open alternative to proprietary stuff like Microsoft Passport (which is again rebranded to Windows Live ID nowadays..) [...]

  2. Serge van Ginderachter » Blog Archive » OpenID met je eigen Wordpress url on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 at 12:07

    [...] toch eens OpenID nu effectief testen. OpenID bestaat al een hele tijd, maar krijgt momenteel nogal wat momentum. Niet alleen Verisign ondersteunt het nu, maar vooral [...]

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