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Thanks to Gary Krall, tech director of PIP at Verisign, I have a recipe for “works every time” OpenID delegation with their free PIP service. First, what is OpenID delegation?

Delegation lets you use your very own URL as your identity URL for logging in with OpenID. For example, I can use http://www.cryptosmith.com/ to log in to web sites. To do this, you have to provide some special statements (a.k.a. magic) in your HTTP files that redirects the OpenID process from your web site to the service that actually does your OpenID authentication.

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Thanks to the help of Will Norris, one of the authors of the WordPress OpenID plugin, I’ve managed to get it to work. I will include some notes on using OpenID in a permanent page.

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Note that OpenID now works on Cryptosmith. Continue Reading »

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Randall Stross/Digital Domain has posted a NYT story on passwords, Open ID, and Information Cards.

The “Information Card Foundation” is only a few weeks old, and the technique is trying to solve problems with both passwords and with Open ID. The posting roasts the old chestnuts about how bad passwords are (does anyone really need convincing?), then roasts Open ID a bit, and then introduces Information Cards, a slightly more flexible but still vulnerable technology.

Personally, I’m not convinced that Information Cards are any safer or easier to use than Open ID can be.

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