The OpenID Foundation Wednesday unveiled a program to certify implementations of its OpenID Connect authentication mechanisms as a step toward ensuring an interoperable identity infrastructure that ...

The OpenID online authentication standard got a massive boost today. Yahoo has announced it intends to adopt OpenID, and will be offering all current Yahoo account holders the chance to upgrade to ...

A fundamental issue affects the OpenID authentication system, due to its reliance on the Domain Name System, a Sun identity-technology specialist has warned. Robin Wilton, a corporate architect for ...

A security researcher has uncovered serious security vulnerabilities in the technologies used by many websites to authenticate users via third-party websites. A blog posted late last week revealed the ...

Webware has been covering the Web authentication standard OpenID since September 2006. It's a powerful alternative to traditional name-and-password Web access control, but it's so completely different ...