Hardware Based OpenID Service Available

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 13, 2008 @09:00AM from the welcome-to-your-next-new-buzzword dept.

An anonymous reader writes "TrustBearer Labs has announced a new service that lets you use various hardware based security tokens like smartcards and biometric devices with OpenID. A hardware based connection to OpenID allows higher levels of security and makes it easier for the end-user to control their credentials. OpenID is a decentralized cross-site authentication system that has been gaining momentum for quite a while now with major supporters like AOL, Google and Microsoft already announced."

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Tell me sales man by techpawn · 2008-02-13 09:09 · Score: 0, Flamebait

It requires no middleware software but rather works through the web browser on Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms
But will it run on... Oh? It will?!

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