OPEN ID ALLOWS YOU TO USE AN EXISTING ACCOUNT TO SIGN IN TO MULTIPLE WEBSITES, WITHOUT NEEDING TO CREAT NEW PASSWORDS

OPEN ID ALLOWS YOU TO USE AN EXISTING ACCOUNT TO SIGN IN TO MULTIPLE WEBSITES, WITHOUT NEEDING TO CREAT NEW PASSWORDS

You may choose to associate information with your OpenID that can be shared with the websites you visit, such as name or your email adreess. With openID, you control how much of that information is shared with the websites you visit

With Open Id, your password is only given to your identity provider, and that provider , no website ever sees your password, so you dont need to worry about an uscrupulous or insecure website compromising your identity.

OpenID is rapidly gaining adoption on the web, with over one billion openID enabled user accounts and over 50.000 ebsites accpeting openID for logins. Several Large Organizations either issue or accept openIDs, including Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, MySpace, Sears, Universal Music, Group, France Telecom, Novell, Sun, Telecom italia, and many more.

Who owns or controls openID?

OpenID was created in the sumer of 2005 by an open source community trying to solve a problem that was not easily solve by other existing identity technologies . as such, openID is decentralized and not owned by one, not shold it be.

Today, anyone can choose to use an openID or become an openID provider for free without having to register or be approved by any organization.

The oppenID Fondation was formed to assits the open source model by providding needed infrastructure and generally helping to promote and supoport expanded adoption of openID