Ask Slashdot: What's Holding Up Single Sign-On?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @07:35AM from the 2012-edition-but-ask-again-next-year dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Like most web users these days, I have enough accounts on enough websites – most of which have *inconsistent* password syntax restrictions — that when I need to log into a site I don't visit very often, I now basically just hit the "Forgot Password" button immediately. Microsoft's "Passport" gave us the promise of a single web sign-on. What happened to that idea? Why hasn't some bright spark (or ubiquitous web corporation) already made a fortune standardizing on one? I can now buy my coffee with my phone. Why do I have to still scratch my passwords on the underside of my desk?"

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Re:Single Sign-On by xtracto · 2012-07-24 08:14 · Score: 4, Interesting

Just use Keepass. Allows you to remember just one password. I use LastPass, but of course it is not for the super-paranoid (it could be hacked with all my passwords on it).

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Re:A little thing called trust by CastrTroy · 2012-07-24 08:15 · Score: 4, Interesting

What about OpenID. That allows anybody to be a single sign on service provider. I can even be my own single sign on service provider if I have my own domain name.

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