Estonia OpenID follow up
In the comments for an earlier post Martin Paljak has posted a follow up to the original info about the Estonian OpenID project.
OpenId for every Estonian 1
Looks like there’s going to be an OpenID for every Estonian. Cool.
Simon Willison asks how Smart Cards help with Phishing. I believe it’s because they are a form of 2FA where only one of the 2 Factors is ever exposed and hence all the credentials can’t be phished.
I’m not an expert though, and of course a quick google search turns up some examples of 2FA being phished.
btw, I first read this as “OpenID for all Etonians”, which I thought was kind of weird, but not totally out of the question.
BeamAuth
Ben Adida: What if a bookmark could be a second factor for authentication?
Simple and effective.
Social Whitelisting with OpenID
Tom Coates: Social Whitelisting with OpenID.
Anti Phishing options at MyOpenId.com
Scott Kveton: MyOpenID: New anti-phishing tools available
Sxipper
Sxipper: Sxipper is a free plug-in for Firefox that lets you log into any website with a single click
Integrating OpenID and Infocard
Kim Cameron: Integrating OpenID and Infocard.
InfoCard primer
The InfoCard Identity Revolution.
Quick primer on what InfoCard is about, and how it fulfills Kim Cameron’s 7 laws of Identity.
Yahoo BBAuth
Yahoo has released a new Web based auth mechanism, BBAuth. As far as I can tell it provides SSO, and also access to the User’s Yahoo data(Yahoo Photos and Yahoo Mail only at the moment).
Dick Hardt says:
…Yahoo is deepening their identity silo…
Dare Obasanjo asks:
- Are there shipping technologies today that allow me to do what I want in an “Identity 2.0” way?
- Are they as easy to implement as telling mashup developers to include a link to my website in their UI and then process the data they get back when the user is redirected back to their site after signing in?
and the answers are No, and Hell No respectively
I think both views are correct. Yahoo’s BBAuth is an identity silo, but there also isn’t an easy way to plug in a auth mechanism that is easy to use for developers and users.
This is one of the most interesting areas in development today and I look forward to what the future holds.
First found via: Dave Winer, then Jeremy Zawodny.
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