[Ed. The OpenID protocol is rapidly gaining momentum in the social networking arena. Exemplifying the momentum OpenID is gaining, Symantec recently announced that it would support OpenID in its ...

Microsoft Supports OpenID This week, Microsoft announced the Windows Live ID OpenID Provider (OP). Live ID is Microsoft's standard authentication protocol. Soon anyone with a Live ID account will ...

Learn more about OpenID, a decentralized, open source framework for user-centric digital identity. With OpenID, rather than managing all online accounts individually, users can manage their identity ...

Last issue I predicted a bit of a slowdown, some bumps in the road perhaps even some fracturing of the OpenID community in the coming year. Scott Kveton disagrees. Well, he would as he’s CEO of ...

The OpenID Foundation argues that the new protocol will ensure that developers won’t have to worry about keeping their users’ accounts safe. Instead, this data will be managed by “operators ...

Today, Google and Plaxo released a hybrid protocol that combines OpenID, the open online identity standard, with OAuth, the secure data portability standard. Too often, when a Website wants to ...

That vulnerability lies in the OpenID module in Drupal that enables users to authenticate themselves using the OpenID protocol. The protocol is based on the OAuth 2.0 specification and is used ...

The OpenID community is closely tied to the open-source software movement and some of these folks will be aghast at Microsoft’s embrace – and OpenID hugging right back.

A serious vulnerability in both the OAuth and OpenID protocols could lead to complications for those who use the services to login to websites like Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Microsoft ...