With the evolution of Web 2.0 and privacy concerns about sites such as MySpace, a need for personal identity solutions has emerged within the past two year...With the evolution of Web 2.0 and privacy concerns about sites such as MySpace, a need for personal identity solutions has emerged within the past two years. In response, several user-controlled digital identity technologies--such as OpenID, Microsoft CardSpace, and the Higgins Project--have sprung up that are converging in places such as Apache, Eclipse, Identity Commons, IETF, and OASIS. This session explains the need for digital identity technologies (improved security, higher user convenience, increased privacy, more-accurate information, new applications) and outlines how developers on the Java platform can take advantage of digital identity in their applications by using an existing application, with code, for example.
to identity openid joid java programming by steff83 and 1 other person on May 6, 2008, 2:19 PMThink about all the accounts you have online: blogs, wikis, to-do lists, photo galleries. The list is endless. Even simple tasks such as leaving comments o...Think about all the accounts you have online: blogs, wikis, to-do lists, photo galleries. The list is endless. Even simple tasks such as leaving comments on someone else's blog may require you to register an account with that particular blogging system. This leaves you, as an end user, to set up and manage numerous accounts on each of these sites. With OpenID, rather than managing all these disparate accounts individually, users can manage their identity in one place via an authentication serve
to authentication security tools java identity openid by steff83 and 3 other people on May 5, 2008, 3:42 PM
