OpenID - Open Source Single-SignOn

Nurgled writes "Danga Interactive, who created LiveJournal and memcached, is working on a new decentralized single-signon system called OpenID. Similar in principle to Six Apart's TypeKey or MSN Passport, OpenID will allow you to assert a single identity to any OpenID-supporting site. The difference here is that there is no central authenticating server: anyone can run one, and Danga's reference implementations will be open-source. The site you are authenticating with never sees your username or password, just a one-time token. You can read the initial announcement on LiveJournal, though some details have changed since that post, so be sure to read the information on the official site."

Comments

Already have single sign-on

[Dangero]

I already have a working single signon. It's called Windows XP login, using IE with autocomplete turned on you never have to enter any passwords online. IE works better than Firefox; as unpopular as that is to say around here. I just can't subscribe to all the Microsoft Bashing.

Bad idea

[77Punker]

Throwing one password around to control everything?
That's a fine example of putting all the eggs into one basket.

Count me out.

Re:Hosting Servers

[grazzy]

The link in your signature might be the absolutly lamest thing ever. Congratulations.