OpenID Europe

OpenID in Belgium!

June 11, 2009 – 7:58 pm

Welcome to Jean-Noël Colin newly appointed OpenID Belgium Representative.  Jean-Noël Colin is Professor at Computer Science Faculty, University of Namur, Belgium. He has a mixed career, having spent 1998-2008 consulting, focusing during the last years on Identity Management solutions, implementation and interoperability issues. Currently, his main research interest is Security of Information System, with a particular focus on Identity Management and the context of web applications. He is also working on the implementation of an OpenId Identity Provider, looking forward to using it as a basis to develop more advanced services.The OpenID Europe Team follow growing up and it is ...

AXSionics goes OpenID in Coorporation with Clavid

December 3, 2008 – 9:20 am

Press Release AXSionics goes OpenID. The AXSionics InternetPassport combined with OpenID is now available for everyone for free in cooperation with Clavid AG. In August 2008 the test phase was launched. Now the Clavid service is fully functional and can be used by everone as part of AXSionics public-servicestrategy. By integrating the AXSionics Internet Passport and OpenID, Clavid provides a Single Sign-On system (SSO) based on biometric user data. The services offers the greatest possible security for user identification for all OpenID-supported web services on the Internet. OpenID nutshell: Today, internet web services are used daily with different user IDs and passwords. Therefore, ...

Clavid added support for any kind of client-side SSL/TLS certificates

November 19, 2008 – 2:01 pm

Many users are already equipped with client-side SSL certificates. Such client-side certificates might be provided by an employer, by the government or a user bought a SSL client certificate from an issuer or a user might even have created a own, self-signed client certificate. Users of the Clavid OpenID provider can now add their existing client-side SSL certificates to their Clavid Account and use it to access all OpenID enabled services. A user can even add multiple certificates (e.g. one from the employer, one from the government and a private one) to one single account and combine all these certificates in ...

Google launches limited API support for OpenID

October 30, 2008 – 12:31 pm

On Wednesday Google formally announced its support as a provider for the OpenID 2.0 protocol, offering some site owners a way to let users log-in and register for new accounts using existing Google account information. More importantly, Google will be letting these same users manage all their linked account information in one central location. This new log-in offering is not available to all site owners just yet. Google has set up a sign-up form where developers can apply with their URL and OpenID identification to get access. Plaxo and Zoho are two of the first sites to already have the new ...

Windows Live ID Becomes an OpenID Provider

October 30, 2008 – 12:22 pm

Windows Live ID Commits to Support OpenIDBeginning today, Windows Live ID is publicly committing to support the OpenID digital identity framework with the announcement of the public availability of a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Windows Live ID OpenID Provider. You will soon be able to use your Windows Live ID account to sign in to any OpenID Web site! The Windows Live ID OpenID Provider (OP) enables anyone with a Windows Live ID account to set up an OpenID alias and to use that alias for identification at an increasing number of OpenID 2.0 relying party sites-for example: Plaxo, Pibb, ...