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Invitation to the Kantara Initiative Launch Commemorative Seminar
On June 17, 2009, the Kantara Initiative, an open community created to promote the adoption and expansion of identity management technologies, was launched. The Kantara Initiative…
Number of OpenID-Enabled Sites Surpasses 45000
According to JanRain’s MyOpenID statistics, as of June 1, 2009, the number of OpenID-enabled sites appears to have surpassed 45000. Regarding this figure of 45000, services such as…
Comparing CX and OAuth, and the OAuth Vulnerability
I could not sleep, so I wrote an article in English. Please have a look if you are interested: Relationship between OAuth and CX, and OAuth vulnerability Incidentally, CX is not af…
Lithuanian Government Adopts OpenID
It appears that the Lithuanian government has adopted OpenID. According to an email from Arthur Orsevski on the OpenID EU mailing list, after OpenID was introduced to the Lithuania…
idcon vol.3 – RP on Rails, OAuth Account, OpenID Monitoring
The 3rd idcon was held in the large conference room of Soffritto Inc. It must have been quite a Cool Japan scene: everyone sitting on tatami mats in a Japanese-style room in Komaba…
idcon vol.2: The Pizza Shop and Liquor Store’s ID-WSF
The 2th Identity Conference (abbreviated as idcon) was held on a grand scale on 6/22, beginning at 2:30 p.m., at the Tokyo office of Baidu Japan Inc.. The agenda was: XRI, Reputati…
Which Identity of an End User Should an RP Recognize as a Unique User?
This topic was mentioned in IwamotoTakashi’s diary (here, here, here, and here) and in ZIGOROu’s diary, so I will briefly organize the points. The question is: “Which identity of a…
Trying to Write My Own Blogging Software
Even I think I am doing something foolish. Maintenance of WordPress for Xoops appears to have stopped, so I had the idea of writing my own blog software that could use its database…
Yahoo! Japan Also Launches OpenID
So I gave it a quick try. Apart from being in Japanese, it is the same as the U.S. service, right down to the screens. It therefore uses the OP Identifier method. It does not suppo…
Is Authentication with OpenID Really Scary?
Via an article by ZIGOROu, I came across mitani1207’s diary entry, “The Truth Is, Authentication with OpenID Is Scary”. This is probably a fairly common reaction,…