http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/08/10/the-end-for-passwords-is-it-time-for-a-new-sign-in-method/ Top Technology news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:30:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/08/10/the-end-for-passwords-is-it-time-for-a-new-sign-in-method/comment-page-1/#comment-119748 David Recordon Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:00:39 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=6571#comment-119748 While I completely agree that we need to be moving away from passwords for many interactions online, there is a slight misconception that OpenID is tied to passwords. OpenID does not specify the authentication mechanism for the user to their OpenID Provider which means that we've seen many companies (including Microsoft) experiment with alternative authentication mechanisms atop OpenID. The big benefit OpenID then provides them is that they're instantly able to start letting users use their new authentication mechanism at any site which accepts OpenID logins. More about this over at http://openid.net/2008/08/10/challenges-facing-openid/. While I completely agree that we need to be moving away from passwords for many interactions online, there is a slight misconception that OpenID is tied to passwords. OpenID does not specify the authentication mechanism for the user to their OpenID Provider which means that we’ve seen many companies (including Microsoft) experiment with alternative authentication mechanisms atop OpenID. The big benefit OpenID then provides them is that they’re instantly able to start letting users use their new authentication mechanism at any site which accepts OpenID logins. More about this over at http://openid.net/2008/08/10/challenges-facing-openid/.

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