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OpenID is an open standard that describes how users can be authenticated in a decentralized manner. It allows the user to use an existing account to sign in to multiple websites, without needing to create new passwords.

OpenID is an open standard that describes how users can be authenticated in a decentralized manner, eliminating the need for services to provide their own ad hoc systems and allowing users to consolidate their digital identities. Users may create accounts with their preferred OpenID identity providers, and then use those accounts as the basis for signing on to any website which accepts OpenID authentication

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Why should I use OpenID for Authentication rather than OAuth?

I've read repeatedly that OpenID is better for authentication than OAuth (which is for authorization), including several other posts on SO. The case also seems to be made in this often-cited article. However, I'm a bit unclear on why I should favor…
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How to detect if an email is a Google Account?

Me and some guys here are working on an start up. We are currently using Google OpenID API to manage registration and login to our app, but we want to migrate to a easier user registration model. And for this, we need to know if there is a way we…
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How do I implement OpenID in my web application?

Does Stackoverflow create a new OpenID when a user registers with an email address (i.e. does not provide an existing OpenID)? How do you do that? Do you have code examples in C#? Java? Python?
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Steam API Authentication

Before I get started, let me say I know absolutely nothing about OpenID. I don't even want to do what OpenID is used for, but I imagine people will mention it, but thats not what I'm looking for. I have software. That software requires users to…
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Rails 3 authentication with OpenID, Twitter or Facebook

Can you suggest some working example of it? I tried Authlogic and Devise withous success.
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OpenID: How to best associated Multiple OpenID Accounts to one User?

I am a newbie in openID. I spend a lot of time thinking what the best-practices are to give the user the choice, to login with various OpenID enabled accounts. (I have to further clarify that my system is not a system that only requires a simple…
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OpenID authentication in Ruby on Rails

I am a neophyte with Ruby on Rails but I've created a couple of small apps. Anyway, I'm really interested in OpenID and I would like to implement OpenID authentication and maybe some Sreg stuff in a Rails app. All of the research that I have done…
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OpenID support for Ruby on Rails application

What is current state of the art for enabling OpenID login in Ruby on Rails applications? This is a community wiki with up-to-date answers to this question. Authlogic The most advanced authentication solution seems to be Authlogic. It supports…
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OpenId support for Yii

I want to play with OpenID support in Yii. After researching for possible plugins, I found these two. One for OpenidSelector and one for…
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Introspection Endpoint of KeyCloak server

I am trying to explore features of KeyCloak server and want to get information about access token by using /openid-connect/token/introspect endpoint. So, I am sending next request to this endpoint curl -v --data…
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Inhouse registration vs. OpenID vs. Google Friend Connect vs. Facebook Connect vs. (etc)

I'm trying to decide how to allow users to register for my website... there's openID, clickpass, facebook connect, google friend connect, etc, or the good old fashioned in-house "enter a username, email, password, etc." Looking briefly at How to…
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Are there any security risks associated with me using OpenID as the authentication method on my site?

Is OpenID a secure method of authentication users on a website? And, if not, what are the security risks associated with OpenID?
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OAuth? ,OpenID? Neither? Which one should my site support?

I working on a new website and wanted some advice/feedback on OAuth vs OpenID vs Standard site owned username/password.
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LightOpenID validate() fail on Google Apps

I'm using LightOpenID to authenticate OpenID against Google Apps. I make the initial authURL() request and things are good. I call validate() and it fails. Through copious echo's, i've tracked it down to the last few lines of validate(). From…
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How do you enable customers to log in to your site using their Google account?

I just saw http://uservoice.com/login. It uses Google accounts, Myspace, Yahoo, OpenID and all to sign in customers into its site? Can I do that? I mean, customers need not register to my site. They can just sign in with their accounts on the above…
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