SAN FRANCISCO -- Like others in the online world, Brad Fitzpatrick wanted to give people a way to sign in to all sorts of Web sites without needing to remember individual user names and passwords for ...

First 37Signals announced it would drop support for OpenID. Then Microsoft’s Dare Obasanjo called OpenID a failure (along with XML and AtomPub). Former Facebooker Yishan Wong's scathing (and sometimes ...

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 ...

Identity standards aren’t sexy. Biometrics, encryption apps and systems that enable high-assurance authentication get much of the attention but standards that make all these technologies work across ...

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 ...

Security: As far as security goes, it's much easier to manage only one username and password rather than 45, right? So you could change your OpenID host password periodically just to keep things more ...

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 ...