openid

In other news, there are now 360 million OpenID holders, just as there were once 360 million AOL CD owners.

People usually use OpenID for that bit and OAuth for the authorisation to use the third party APIs as the customer.

If they use username@persona.com on personb.com, handle that in the login code and start the regular OpenID flow with persona.com to authenticate.

Merely having wide adoption of OpenID or Mozilla Persona would be a worthy start.

There are some big flaws in OpenID (the phishing problem for one) but at least some people are trying to address them.

Well, it could be that my skepticism about OpenID will ultimately prove unfounded.

This will make some other sites want to use OpenID for authentication, because who wants to manage credentials if you don't have to?

I think he may have confused OAuth with OpenID (which are often used in a complementary fashion).

Personally, I don't even want to deal with storing user passwords so I prefer using OpenID.

Why don't banks just host openid servers so I could authenticate myself and pay using that?

Fair enough, but I wouldn't think that the marginal additional security of OpenID would matter too much in that scenario.

I've got an OpenID account but have rarely used it, probably because there are few places to actually use it.

He did say that the goal was to move in that direction, but gave no further guidance." OpenID!

Blogger (aka Google) supposedly "supports" OpenID, but their login page doesn't let me use one.

> Blogger (aka Google) supposedly "supports" OpenID, but their login page doesn't let me use one.

"Facebook may be inching towards Plaxo's (and others') vision of letting users freely import and export their data from any site, including social networks like Facebook, we're told." I wonder what that means for OpenID?