In May of last year a group of security researchers identified a flaw in some OpenID implementations. They have recently identified a related flaw in some OpenID implementations. See data-confusion-bugreport (1) for their report. The researchers contacted the main websites impacted, and those sites have deployed a fix. OpenID Foundation board members have […]
The OIDF Account Chooser working group is now very close to launching the first version of a central Account Chooser service. This 4 minute video shows it working today and there are many demos you can try yourself. On March 22nd we are holding a meeting of the working group in Silicon Valley, and others are invited […]
The OpenID Foundation is hosting an OpenID workshop on March 28th. It will be held at Microsoft’s office in London. The event was originally going to be held at Google’s offices, but due to the high demand it has been moved to a location with more room. The OpenID Foundation […]
In 2011 the OpenID Foundation welcomed Deutsche Telekom as a new member. By joining the Foundation and other industry leaders such as Microsoft, Ping Identity, Google, PayPal, & Symantec, Europe’s largest telecommunications company is supporting decentralized authentication systems for easy online login, such as OpenID. In the development of consumer […]
PayPal Access provides a way for users to log into your web site using interfaces based on the OpenID 2.0 protocol, an open specification produced by the OpenID community. More information View a video replay of a recent PayPal Access presentation
October is National Cybersecurity month so a shout out goes to our colleagues at The National Cyber Security Alliance NCSA’s mission is to educate and therefore empower a digital society to use the Internet safely and securely at home, work, and school, protecting the technology individuals use, the networks they […]
The recent Sony incident was another wake up call for website owners about the problems with passwords as discussed in the recent OIDF blog post. One of the purposes of the OpenID Foundation blog is to help identify events that website owners can attend to learn more about alternatives to […]
One of the topics discussed recently at Ping Identity’s OpenID Summit at its Cloud Identity Conference and again at last week’s Gartner Catalyst conference was a “consumerisation of the enterprise” . OpenID was at the center of those discussions as technology bulls and bears debated its value in both enterprise […]
The OpenID Foundation’s 2011 series of OpenID Summits focus is on use cases and topics of interest to key developers, executives and analysts in the identity industry. The OpenID Summit in Munich will focus on global adoption dynamics and the evolution of OpenID technologies. It is a free event co-sponsored […]
Sign up now for the OpenID Summit “Balancing Security and the User Experience” on May 2 The OpenID Foundation’s 2011 series of OpenID Summits focus on use cases and topics of interest to developers, executives and analysts in the identity industry. The next summit explores security and the user experience […]