OpenID gets some heavy love

Posted on February 23, 2008
Filed Under: Work
Tagged: expressionengine, google, ibm, microsoft, openid, yahoo

OpenID

Looks like the big players are finally jumping onto the OpenID bandwagon.

The OpenID Foundation recently announced that a number of internet heavyweights joined the group. The board now includes representatives from Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo!

While OpenID isn’t without it’s critics, including some concerns about phishing, it’s looking more and more like a viable solution for the masses who want to eliminate the need for multiple user names and passwords.

From the OpenID web site:

OpenID is free technology that simplifies the on-line user experience by eliminating the need for multiple user names across Internet sites, enabling individuals to take more control and ownership of their digital identities. This user-centric digital identity technology helps users reduce the pain of managing dozens, even hundreds of user-names and passwords, and provides more control over what personal information they share with Web sites when they sign-in using an OpenID.

Today, more than 10,000 Web sites support OpenID log-ins, and an estimated 350 million OpenID enabled URLs currently exist.

And more importantly for me...it looks like the folks over in the CodeIgnitor forums are working on OpenID libraries - so maybe it won’t be long before my favourite CMS will offer a relatively painless way to implement it soon too.

Comments:

  1. Ross (February 24, 2008 at 11:42 AM):

    Did you see this?

    Credentials stored in a certificate allowing zero sign ons. Pretty cool.

  2. Tripp Fenderson (February 24, 2008 at 06:37 PM):

    Thanks for the link. I hadn’t read that. Interesting comments too.

    While I like the idea of zero sign-on once the certificate is set up on the computer, I’m not sure that’s answer for me.

    I’m finding myself accessing online services across multiple devices more and more (phone, office desktop, laptop, computer at work). That would mean a certificate for each device.

    The ability to have a single, portable sign-on, no matter how I’m accessing data, makes more sense to me.

  3. David Rencher (March 02, 2008 at 02:21 AM):

    this would be a god send.

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