January 28, 2009 – 8:09 pm
Today the OpenID Foundation announced that PayPal joined the board of the OpenID Foundation as the sixth sustaining corporate member. This is certainly a very remarkable addition to the board as PayPal is a well-established brand all over the world and represents an industry that is not part of the board yet and which deals […]
January 7, 2009 – 10:51 pm
Just in time before year’s end the Provider Authentication Policy Extension (PAPE) was approved as an OpenID specification by votes of members of the OpenID Foundation.
PAPE will help making OpenID more secure. To quote from our Technical Terms page:
This extension (it can be used with OpenID 1.1 and 2.0) allows Relying Parties to request […]
By Carsten Poetter | Tagged authentication, nist, pape, security, specification |
January 3, 2009 – 7:38 pm
Yesterday JanRain, the company running the well-known OpenID Provider MyOpenID.com, published its Relying Party statistics. According to those statistics there were 31,185 unique websites by the end of 2008 which support OpenID as a Relying Party. As you can see from the chart below, adoption of OpenID is growing steadily. Of course, those are only […]