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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

OpenID has gotten a big lift this week with two big announcements coming from two very different camps. First, Microsoft has announced that Windows Live will officially support OpenID for login and ...

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 ...

Researchers at Microsoft are using inkblots, similar to the way Rorschach Inkblot tests are used, as visual queues to help users create and remember passwords. Microsoft’s project combines the inkblot ...

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 import ...