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The future of OpenID 29 Mar 2007

Posted by Peter Cruickshank in Daily Links, Techie, e-government, e-participation, egovernment.
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A first-rate explanation of the potential and pitfalls of OpenID. You have to sit through all 34 minutes of, but I think it’s time well spent. If you don’t have the time, there’s a high-level overview of the concepts here

I’m convinced that OpenID will be great for e-participation – you don’t need to create a new account on another e-government website just to comment on an item or sign a petition.

On the other hand, it’s definitely early days, on the initial slope of the hype cycle etc etc

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1. Peter Cruickshank - 20 Aug 2007

If you want more to think about, some conceptual issues around using OpenID to ‘outsource your security’ are being discussed now, for instance:

http://idlogger.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/a-good-point-made-on-openid/