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E-commerce Single Sign-On Not Dead Yet

Posted by timothy on from the he'll-have-to-do-a-lot-of-convincing dept.

FullyIonized writes "A few years ago Microsoft's Passport technology made headlines as Microsoft predicted e-commerce nirvana and conspiracists predicted a new Big Brother. Not to be outdone, Sun spearheaded the Liberty Alliance . Years later, I still don't have a single sign-on, not that that's a bad thing. Enter Andre Durand who started his first business with BBS software, then headed up Jabber, and now has started Ping Identity. The big distinction: the federated identity software is open-source. The Denver Post has the story."

4 of 200 comments (clear)

  1. Why? by JNighthawk · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why do you have so many different passwords? Just come up with a few sufficienly complex ones. I've got 4 different passwords that I use, each having their own "security level". Slashdot is a level 1, since I don't care about someone stealing my account here, whereas my account for World of Warcraft is a level 4 :-P

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    Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'.
  2. sourceid.org by Ized · · Score: 5, Informative

    Incase somebody is wondering where the open-source implementation of Ping ID is hiding, it's here:
    Sourceid.org

  3. Here's how it actually works by bjpirt · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why is there no link to the actual ping identity website in the submission?

  4. SSO in UK by deletedaccount · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is a sucessful SSO mechanism used by the education and health sectors in the UK. It has around 3 million users and over 250 target resources. It's called Athens and has been around for years. Eduserv Athens website