OpenID gets the third degree at OSCON

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jul 25, 2008 6:06 PM EDT
Linux.com; By Nathan Willis
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Is OpenID a panacea, a placebo, or something in between? Opposing viewpoints took turns on center stage Wednesday afternoon at OSCON 2008. The session entitled "A Critical View of OpenID" started off as anything but critical, but once the audience got its turn to raise questions, things got more interesting. Moderated by author Jason Levitt, the session featured four speakers explaining the theory, security model, implementation, and importance of the OpenID single sign-on system. Simon Willison gave an overview of the system, Scott Kveton of Vidoop examined its security, Chris Messina of the DiSo project described its potential impact on social networking, and Yahoo!'s Membership Team architect Allen Tom related his company's experience deploying it.

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