The universal log-in standard has been around for three years now. So why is Facebook Connect stealing all its thunder? Caroline McCarthy, a CNET News staff writer, is a downtown Manhattanite happily ...

June 18, 2010 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google OpenID is an open standard for logging onto various web services with a single digital identity. The tool puts ...

A missed opportunity? and published as a SolidLab white paper on arXiv, the paper delivers a detailed technical and legal ...

In what may turn out to be an important development for interoperability between Internet services, online giant Yahoo has announced it plans to support OpenID 2.0, a standard designed to enable ...

Signing users in to a mobile or web app isn’t necessarily hard, but keeping their credentials safe is something that’s often best left to specialists. The OpenID Foundation today announced the launch ...

Directed identities allow the identity provider (IdP) to return the actual identifier to the relying party (RP) rather than requiring the user to enter the identifier up front. There are two primary ...

User-centric identity, which puts users at the center of identity transactions, is fast capturing the attention of the Web-minded world. In fact, many traditional organizations are looking to blend ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent provider of identity, today announced it has joined the OpenID Foundation as a sustaining member. The new board ...

[Ed. We have recently seen a rise in interest in several new identity technologies. These technologies arise from a different set of missions than traditional enterprise focused, domain-centric ...

Earlier this year, Jem Stone blogged that the BBC had joined the OpenID Foundation. And a week ago, the BBC hosted a meeting of the OpenID Foundation Content Provider Advisory Committee in New York. I ...