SAN FRANCISCO -- Like others in the online world, Brad Fitzpatrick wanted to give people a way to sign in to all sorts of Web sites without needing to remember individual user names and passwords for ...

OpenID, the decentralized identity system that dispenses with usernames and passwords in favor of a single, portable web identity, promises to eventually change the way we login to our favorite ...

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The OpenID Foundation led the standardization of authentication protocols with OpenID Connect and now we are proud to host the AuthZEN Working Group as they seek to do the same for authorization.” — ...