Category Archives: authenticationThanks to a blog post by Alec Saunders, I found out about a lovely WordPress plugin that not only allows you to allow people to authenticate using their OpenID credentials in order to leave comments on your blog, but turns your WordPress blog into it’s own OpenID server! It does require a small modification to […]
This blog entry from simonwillison.net explains how to get your own, personalized OpenID, yet use someone else’s server to provide the service. For example, I am redirecting my spiffy new OpenID to my Vox account, though I could easily change it at any time. Just make sure you put the tags he mentions in the […]
Between a private email from Aswath and other posts on OpenID, I have reconsidered my opinion on this. It may not be such a bad thing after all.
What really hit me in the shower this morning was how much OpenID was like SSL certificates. As you may or may not know, an SSL certificate is […]
I was reading Aswath’s post on OpenID today and I realized the fundamental flaw with it: that anyone can create an authentication server to validate your request. While that’s fine and dandy from a lack of vendor lock-in point of view, from an authentication point of view, it’s horrible. What’s worse, is that there is […]
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