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	25.6.2009 - Mr. Teemu Rissanen will deliver a paper on the user-centric identity layer for the Internet, at the World e-ID Conference in Sophia-Antipolis, France. The conference is held in September 22 - 25. Register now!
	30.7.2009 - Mr. Jarkko Majava will deliver a paper on Pan-European eID interoperability strategies, initiatives and practices, at the Net-ID 2009 Conference in Berlin. Net-ID 2009 is held betwee 1st and 2nd October 2009, at the Steigenberger Hotel in Berlin.

User-Oriented and user-Driven identity services are essential building blocks of the internet community services, and OpenID is one of the cornerstones!

OpenID is a Free, Open, User-Centric Single-Sign On

In General

OpenID is a new user oriented Identity Service for Web Single Sign-on, . OpenID makes it possible to login to Web sites using just one single digital identity, thus eliminating the need for site specific user names and passwords. Also OpenID makes it easy to register to new Web sites and to manage the information that is passed to the sites. This way the user is always in control of the data that she is sharing with different sites, communities and other users.

OpenID is a decentralized and open standard that lets users control the personal information they provide. This means that anyone can use OpenID, any Web site can accept OpenID's and any service provider can start to issue OpenID's without royalties, license fees or other commercial restrictions. What's even better, OpenID can be used and deployed in confidence that the user's privacy is not endangered online, that their identities are not subject to fraud or identity theft or that user credentials are not abused by spammers or phishers. OpenID is highly compatible with other open Identity Services in use or available in the Internet, which makes it usable for a multitude of services and businesses.´

OpenID is an URL that belongs to You

OpenID is a URL, which can be your own website address, or the URL of an OpenID identity provider, such as myOpenID.com. How this works, is that you simply login to your OpenID identity provider either through their web site, or by entering your OpenID URL address in the login box. After this, your OpenID provider validates your identity and logs you automatically to the service you want to login.

Everyone is benefitting!

What OpenID Gives to Users:	What OpenID Gives to Websites and Service Providers:
Fast, easy and secure registration and login to Websites Less passwords to remember or account details to manage User driven management and updating of personal data at preferred sites Provides better password security and protects against spamming Helps to give a better control of privacy to the user	More website visitors are likely to become registered users and login more often Less password renewall requests and less risks related to renewall processes Smoothening the path for adoption of “community” features Better protection against password sharing fraud Easy and cost-effective adoption of single sign-on across multiple company and partner websites

Other nice things to know about OpenID

OpenID is based on open standards and open source technology, which makes it highly interoperable by nature, since there is not one single industry player that would define it according to one single direction. As many other Open Identity Service technologies and projects share the same open specifications base, or framework, OpenID can be easily combined and integrated with other open solutions and services such as Windows CardSpace, Higgins Project, XRI iNames, OAuth, Liberty Alliance, Bandit Project, etc.

Use InfoCards to login to your OpenID account

OpenID services are seamlessly integrated with InfoCards and you can use Windows CardSpace or services like Azigo to manage your OpenID InfoCard credentials. Another quick, easy and free service to strenghten the security and usability of your OpenID credential is to use the OpenIDbyCard service offered by Fun Communications.

> See more on our InfoCard services and solutions.

Use iNames as OpenID identifiers

The current OpenID Authentication 2.0 specification defines two types of identifiers that can be used with OpenID: URL's and XRI's, which are iNames.

iName XRI's are identifiers designed for providing cross-domain digital identity for persons and organisations. XRI stands for Extendible Resource Identifier and it comes in two forms: iNames and correspoding machine-readable iNumbers. iNames are like Internet domain names as they carry a human language name, and they can be reassignable in case that name changes. Machine-readable iNumbers on the other hand, are never reassigned as they form the persistent linking between a person or oraganisation and the resource it is attached to.

When an XRI iName is used as an OpenID identifier, it is immediately resolved to the synonymous iNumber, which is the OpenID identifier stored by the relying party. Both the user and the relying party are protected from the user's OpenID identity ever being taken over by someone else since even if the user iName is reassigned to another person, the OpenID relying party will always stay in relation with the persistent owner of the corresponding iNumber, not with the iName. Compared with URL identifiers that are based on reassignable DNS names, use of XRI iNames provides stronger future-proof and anti-impersonation protection.

> See more on our iName services and solutions.

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