OpenID8 items tagged “authentication”
django-piston. Promising looking Django mini-framework for creating RESTful APIs, from the bitbucket team. Ticks all of Jacob’s boxes, even including built-in pluggable authentication support with HTTP Basic, Digest and OAuth out of the box. 
30th April 2009, 7:55 pm
Google’s Usability Research on Federated Login. Fascinating—suggests an approach to federated auth based on the Amazon.com “Yes, I have a password” login flow. Feels convoluted to me but apparently it tests really well against a mainstream audience. The more research shared around this stuff the better. 
22nd September 2008, 8:56 pm
Something you had, Something you forgot, Something you were
— Nick Mathewson 13th May 2008, 8:06 am
Django snippets: Authenticate against Active Directory. Uses a custom authentication backend with the Python ldap module. If Django hasn’t seen the user before a new Django user account is created with data from ldap. 10th December 2007, 8:40 am
OAuth Core 1.0. The final spec. Expect to see this crop up all over the place in the next few months. 5th December 2007, 3:39 am
OAuth: Your valet key for the Web. OAuth is a really important new specification that aims to solve the “give this application permission to do X on my behalf” problem once and for all. 21st September 2007, 11:34 pm
Jottit. Aaron Swartz’s latest venture: a complete rethink of the Infogami concept. Well worth checking out for the extremely thoughtful way it introduces features, and the way account creation with a password remains optional until you want to add access control. 16th September 2007, 9:43 pm
Wrong-headed impersonation. Kim Cameron discusses user absent authentication, and emphasises the importance of delegation using delegation coupons. 5th March 2007, 2:38 pm
