Category Archives: Provider

StartCom SSL: Using Certificates and Smart Cards for Login

The number of providers listed on Spread OpenID is growing even more. We have added StartCom SSL to the provider listing today.
StartCom SSL allows login by client certificates and smart cards. It is a welcome trend that OpenID providers are adding more secure layers to the usual username/password login method to their services. This will […]

Xlogon: German OpenID Provider Added

Just three days have passed since the last post, but sooner than we have thought here is another one.
We have added Xlogon to the provider list. While we don’t want to recommend any providers listed here, we are actually quite happy about this addition. Xlogon is a German OpenID provider, so you can guess we […]

Yahoo! and CNN with OpenID Support

Some good news regarding OpenID have been reported the last two days. Two major media and internet brands have adopted OpenID.
Yahoo! Becomes an OpenID Provider
If you are reading tech blogs regularly you have read the news somewhere else already: Yahoo! will become an OpenID provider by the end of the month. This is really good […]