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Using Your Own Domain as an OpenID—with Failover
I saw that Gina Trapani had written a blog post about Chris Messina’s “This Week in Google.” It explains how to use your own domain as an OpenID. http://smarterware.org/6286/…
OpenID Working Groups and OpenID Connect
The openid.net mailing lists are getting a little confusing too, so I will sort things out here. The working groups currently planned are listed below and are collectively called v…
[PHP] How to Use openssl_pkcs7_sign
A quick note, since I spent nearly an hour stuck on this. For PHP OpenSSL’s openssl_pkcs7_sign, if you do it as shown in the manual’s example: openssl_pkcs7_sign(…
OpenID Artifact Binding 1.0d04
I finally started working on Artifact Binding 1.0 draft 04 last night. I wrote from 22:00-02:00, took a nap until 03:30, and then drove from Kita-Karuizawa to Tokyo (03:50-07:20).…
OpenID Is Not a Specification for Authentication
As of 2010/4/29, the Japanese edition of Wikipedia describes OpenID as follows: “OpenID is a standard for an authentication system that can be used regardless of the website, as we…
Challenges in Distributing a National ID
Some argue that, for government efficiency, Japan should simply use the Basic Resident Register Network to distribute national IDs without delay. Certainly, if they could be distri…
The Haraguchi 5 Principles and OpenID
The “Haraguchi 5 Principles on Identification Numbers” have been announced. Principle 1: The system must protect the rights of citizens The number is intended to protect citizens…
ITU-T’s Definition of Identity Management
I think this is a pretty good definition, so I am making a note of it here. For ITU-T purposes, the identity asserted by an entity represents the uniqueness of that entity in a spe…
OpenID vs. OAuth
It is often said that OpenID is for authentication and OAuth is for authorization. This was originally something that people involved with OAuth in the United States started saying…
U.S. OpenID Foundation Begins 2010
Today, the U.S. OpenID Foundation held its first board meeting of 2010. The main topics today were deciding the committee structure for this term, appointing the officers for this…