A thorny problem for many organisations running a website is the registration process for new users. The marketing department wants to capture as much information about each new user as possible, but ...

OpenID is an open, decentralized, open-source framework for user-centric digital identity. Think about all the accounts you have online: blogs, wikis, to-do lists, photo galleries. The list is endless ...

Google is about to announce OpenID log-in functionality for enterprise users of its Apps productivity suite. The search giant has already adopted the authentication standard--whereby a single log-in ...

The past few months, we've looked at two different ways to authenticate users coming to a Web site. First, we looked at OpenID, an increasingly popular distributed authentication system. With OpenID, ...

Mountain View, Calif. " September 9, 2009 " VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure for the networked world, today announced it will support and participate in ...

Authentication protocols serve as the backbone of online security, enabling users to confirm their identities securely and access protected information and services. They define how claimants (users ...

Users will be able to use their Yahoo name and password to access non-Yahoo Web sites that support the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework People with a Yahoo user name and password will be able to ...

A vulnerability found recently in an OpenID-based feature of the Mozilla Persona online-identity management service prompted the company to advise web developers to check their OpenID implementations ...