Comments on: OpenID Marches On

By: Kevin Fox

Kevin Fox — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:34:48 +0000

Nice post Mike, if you do not want to spend $ on extra hardware Vidoop has a pretty neat thing called the ImageShield that we use on our OpenID provider http://myvidoop.com It issues you a one time random access code based on images categories you see when you login. Pretty simple and requires no extra software or hardware for the user to install…

By: ltd

ltd — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:56:34 +0000

Aswath: The idselector is totally configurable by the RP and OP’s that distribute it, the goal is not to play favorites. Seatbelt is great and we encourage users to download and use it. But for those users (the majority) who don’t have it installed, the idselector can make a difference in ease of use.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:26:36 +0000

Just wanted to throw in an alternate way of increasing your OpenID security on the cheap. Verisign’s PIP OpenID Service allows you to assign those $5 PayPal Security Keys to your account, thus adding two-factor authentication. I recently wrote about it on my site if anyone is looking for more information on that.

By: Aswath

Aswath — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:45:07 +0000

This development is not good news for OpenID movement. ID Selector widget is a defensive step taken by JanRain in response to ClickPass. Both of them will end up playing favorite to a handful of providers. Seatbelt plugin developed by Verisign is much more neutral to ID providers and meets all the stated objectives of these services – simplified user experience. For these reasons, our application, which uses only OpenID, shall not use these “button” schemes.

By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:54:14 +0000

Aaron, thanks for the suggestion. WWD is hosted by WordPress.com so we don’t the same flexibility when it comes to installing plug-ins meant for self-hosted blogs.

By: Aaron B. Hockley

Aaron B. Hockley — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:02:15 +0000

When will WWD allow us to use OpenID to leave comments? It’s literally a 5-minute install via a WordPress plugin…