Microsoft, Verisign, Sxip and JanRain have announced that they will all support the OpenID protocol in their upcoming products. Kim Cameron has the scoop (but then he would have, being the ‘Chief Architect of Identity’ at Microsoft).
Looks like we might have our web identity winner. Maybe, finally, this will be the year of web […]
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OpenID is a decentralized identity/single-sign-on system which uses URLs to identify people. Now I haven’t particularly looked at this stuff for a while, so I was surprised to see how much had happened in the last few months.
In particular:
Verisign have joined the openid bandwagon. They’ve got somebody participating in openid2.0, and they’ve got an […]
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Posted in Python, Django, OpenID on Jan 6th, 2006 5 Comments »
I’ve been experimenting with adding openid authentication to django. I couldn’t find another software package to do this (although I did see this, which implies there is some other code out there)
Anyway - here’s mine so far.
The main problem I’ve hit is that the username column in the django authentication db schema (v0.90) […]
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