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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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