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Passport to Nowhere

Posted by michael on from the where-did-you-want-to-go-yesterday dept.

prostoalex writes "CNET News.com.com talks about less than glamorous acceptance of Microsoft's single sign-on technology, .NET Passport. Being launched as a single sign-on service for online businesses and competing heavily with open Liberty Alliance project, which so far has produced just a large amount of PDF files, .NET Passport is considered a failure (although not by Microsoft). Turns out, high licensing fees, lack of simple implementation, security leaks and server downtime, were not acceptable to most of potential clients out there."

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  1. Only used in hotmail by sapped · · Score: 5, Informative

    I actually created a passport login to see how many places they would use it and if it would be beneficial. Thus far I have only seen it used with Hotmail and on the MSN site. Have any others seen it used on other non-Microsoft sites?

  2. Just PDF files? by finkployd · · Score: 5, Informative

    Liberty Alliance project, which so far has produced just large amount of PDF files

    Which is all they intended to produce. Technically Liberty Alliance is a spec, not an implementation.

    Now if you are asserting that there are no implementations, the SourceID people would probably disagree with that.

    Finkployd