OpenID: The Ultimate Sign On

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Author: JT Smith

Remembering all login IDs and passwords for all the Internet forums and communities that you are part of, is indeed an onerous task and one more registration for a new site seems like one too many. We have all tried to get around these problems by jotting down passwords on pieces of paper or sticking notes to our terminal – all potentially dangerous practices that defeat the very purpose of keeping a digital identity secure.

Gurudutt Talgery shows a solution to this problem in this article. A solution, which is free, non-proprietary, open standards based, extensible, community-driven framework with Open Source libraries and helpful tutorials to get you on board, called OpenID.

Link: packtpub.com

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