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 ...

With today’s announcement from Facebook of its plans to take its Facebook Connect program into the mobile sphere with Single Sign-on, it started to raise some questions from across various points. On ...

Most Internet users do not eat, sleep, and breathe authentication. Many don't know what "authentication" means. Some can't even spell the word. But everyone who has used the Internet for more than ...

The past few months, we've looked at two different ways to authenticate users coming to a Web site. First, we looked at OpenID, an increasingly popular distributed authentication system. With OpenID, ...

Story<BR><BR>VeriSign has announced support for OpenID, a lightweight authentication system designed to allow users to post on blogs and wikis without creating a new account for each one.

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, ...