Thread: OpenID fever catches Facebook too !!

Fellow board members maybe familiar with OpenID and some amongst u maybe even using their services. Here is the lowdown for those who are unknown of the service -- it is a decentralized user authentication mechanism. Instead of remembering each and every username/password combination, u can merge all those into one single username/password combination. And this is termed OpenID. Facebook is the latest to implement it which has already been lauded by Yahoo, Microsoft and Google.

it is convenient. but comes with an added security risk. only one openID to hack.

i have no time to read their terms of use can anyone please describe here the use of open ID.......i have read this thread so please dont say go to post # 1........just please tell me details of yahoo open ID service......

Originally Posted by cool_techie_tvm

Fellow board members maybe familiar with OpenID and some amongst u maybe even using their services. Here is the lowdown for those who are unknown of the service -- it is a decentralized user authentication mechanism. Instead of remembering each and every username/password combination, u can merge all those into one single username/password combination. And this is termed OpenID. Facebook is the latest to implement it which has already been lauded by Yahoo, Microsoft and Google.

seems interesting. can you please explain this technique a bit more.