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Blogmarks tagged openid in Jan, 2007

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Announcing Jyte. “Jyte is a simple service that allows you to associate claims, credibility and contacts to build a reputation with your OpenID”. The OpenID landscape is wide open for innovation like this. # 31st January 2007, 6:04 pm

XRID.net (via) Sign up for a free @xrid*something i-name by logging in with an OpenID. # 29th January 2007, 4:55 am

OpenID Enabled: OpenID Tests. Useful for checking if your OpenID consumer or server are working OK. # 27th January 2007, 10:34 am

Justin Mason: more on social whitelisting with OpenID. The author of spam assassin warns that whitelist-based trust networks are a lot harder than they look. # 26th January 2007, 1:02 am

Social whitelisting with OpenID... (plasticbag.org). Tom’s write-up of the social whitelisting idea. Lots of sceptics in the comments. # 26th January 2007, 1 am

MyOpenID: New anti-phishing tools available. Includes SafeSignIn, which removes the login form from the landing page. You have to enable it in your preferences though. # 24th January 2007, 3:02 pm

Oxford Geek Nights. 8pm on the 7th of February 2007 at the Jericho Tavern in Oxford. Three 15 minute talks and a bunch of 5 minute microslots. I’ll be giving a talk on OpenID. # 22nd January 2007, 7:22 pm

Ma.gnolia Blog: OpenID is Taking Off! Since November, 15% of new Ma.gnolia members signed up using an OpenID. # 22nd January 2007, 6:41 pm

Group Membership Protocol. Martin Atkins’ proposal for a simple “is OpenID X a member of group Y?” protocol, useful for whitelists that can scale to handle large numbers of entries. # 22nd January 2007, 8:27 am

Anonymous OpenID. A mailinator-style service for OpenID. I’m glad someone’s built this; it reinforces the idea that an OpenID should not be trusted as an account without first using a verification step. # 21st January 2007, 2:03 am

Phishing and OpenID: Bookmarks to the Rescue? Ping extends my proposal to use bookmarks as the principle authentication mechanism, resulting in a system that is much easier for people to understand. # 21st January 2007, 1:36 am

XMPP OpenID server. An OpenID provider that sends you a Jabber message when you try to log in, to help guard against phishing. # 20th January 2007, 11:24 pm

Links to academic papers on phishing. Posted to the openid-general list by Mike Beltzner. # 19th January 2007, 5:32 pm

Planet OpenID. Aggregating news about OpenID—surprisingly high traffic. # 18th January 2007, 12:04 am

OpenID users can be just as trusty as local users. Martin Atkins makes a similar argument to my own: OpenIDs are trustworthy, provided you subject them to the same authentication steps (CAPTCHA/e-mail validation) as regular users. # 16th January 2007, 11:13 am

Firefox3/Firefox Requirements (via) OpenID and CardSpace are both listed as mandatory features. # 11th January 2007, 6:56 pm

OpenID Speech at Webtuesday Zurich. Good set of slides, along with the tidbit that local.ch (which had slippy maps years before Google) is implementing OpenID. # 11th January 2007, 3:27 pm

OpenID Questions. I’ve attempted to provide answers in the comments. # 9th January 2007, 11:46 am

OpenID for non-SuperUsers. Sam Ruby explains the key concepts of OpenID that many first-time users tend to miss. # 7th January 2007, 10:21 pm

DjangoID. Django-based OpenID server for hosting your own (or someone else’s) identity. # 7th January 2007, 9:54 pm