Steven Osborn
"I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code".

SourceForge Ships OpenID!!

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

SourceForge.net shipped support for OpenID this morning followed by an official announcement on their community forums. In just a few seconds I had my OpenID tied to my existing SF account. Their implementation seems very solid and straight forward. This certainly makes them one of the largest, most ...

SourceForge OpenID RP in the works.

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Luke Crouch, one of SourceForge's developers left a subtle message today in their community forums hinting at what OpenID features they've been working on recently. It looks like they will be shipping a full on RP implementation along with delegation support for their developer profile pages. "dedicated Identity Providers can focus on ...

Improving OpenID Delegation

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

When I authenticate using my delegated OpenID I'm actually proving I own two different URIs. I own http://steven.bitsetters.com which I'm delegating from and I own (or at least have some control over) http://steven.myvidoop.com. So a RP can easily associate both endpoints with my account. The problem comes ...

OpenID Delegation: Ship It.

Monday, March 24th, 2008

It seems when everyone's talking about the lack of OpenID relying parties compared to identity providers they often leave out an important role in the OpenID stack: Delegation. Of course this doesn't solve the problem everyone is feverishly complaining about, but it is curious to see no one ...