How to turn your blog in to an OpenID
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Saved by 39 people (11 private), first by anonymouse user on 2006-12-19
- Mfruchter on 2008-09-06 - Tags openid , authentication , web2.0
- Adriennet on 2008-06-30 - Tags openid , identity , hosting
- Jtepper on 2008-05-24 - Tags authentication , howto
- Jeffisageek on 2008-03-26 - Tags openID
- Codesmith on 2008-03-22 - Tags authentication , blogging , howto , identity , openid , security , web
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How to turn your blog in to an OpenID
Wouldn’t it be great if you could use the same account to log in to multiple sites and applications, without having to trust them all with your password? Wouldn’t it be even better if you could do this without having to hand ownership of your online identity over to some monolithic third party? (I’m looking at you, .NET Passport Microsoft Passport Windows Live ID.)
The good news is, you can! OpenID is a decentralised authentication system invented by LiveJournal but now being developed as an open standard under the careful mentorship of the Apache Software Foundation. Anyone can create an OpenID, and the number of sites which let you log in with one is growing by the day.
An OpenID is simply a URL. My OpenID is simonwillison.net, the address of my weblog. I can use it to sign in to any site that supports OpenID, and because I’m the only person with control over my weblog’s homepage I’m the only person who can use that identity.
If you want your own OpenID (and you should), here’s how to get one.
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on 2006-12-20 by stumax