Take The Easy Way in Accepting OpenID's:

signup for a fully managed and hosted OpenID service

Want to get ahead of your competitors? Need to boost your user registration and returning user rates? Ready to tackle OpenID? We offer you unparalleled services for Websites that want to lead the way in the Internet community and open standards front of OpenID, but don't want to invest in time, money, resources or other efforts in order to get OpenID working for them.

The Easy Way for accepting OpenID's: JanRain RPX Service

We provide a complete, hassle-free and simple to deploy cloud-service for Your Website to start to accept OpenID's. The service is brought to you by our partner JanRain, the original, first and largest provider of OpenID technology in the market. When enabling your website to accept OpenIDs or any other open authentication technology there are a multitude of features to consider, both from a quality of experience and security perspective.

The JanRain RPX service for accepting OpenID's insures that you always have the latest and best in class features.

As open source technology, you can develop and integrate your own OpenID and other open identity service implementations independently of technology vendors. The JanRain RPX lets you the freedom to develop your open identity implementations and this is why the JanRain RPX service is also a future-proof solution. The RPX service provides you with fast deployment, mature and real life tested technology and reliable service delivery for you to concentrate on your business.

Full care-free service up and running in no time!

The JanRain RPX service is delivered as SaaS (Software as a Service) and it is agnostic to the platform running your website. There are only two requirements: the website is able to make HTTPS call out to the service, and that the site must be able to parse either JSON or XML used in the response.

The setting up of the RPX service can take can little as one day. Only things that you will need to decide and develop for your site are the look and design of the OpenID login widget and your website "End-point", or the page where your user lands after successful login.

We will guide you through all this and provide you with all the documentation and service support you will need, plus a SLA.

The JanRain RPX is an API that operates from the cloud. It connects to your web server just by using HTTPS and XML / JSON and requires no technical integration what so ever. Once plugged-in, you can immediately start to accept OpenID logins and registrations from millions of users. In case your users already have accounts in your site, JanRain RPX enables linking of the primary accounts with the user OpenID's.

Your Website (the Relying Party)	The JanRain RPX (API) Service	OpenID users

• Support for OpenID 1.x, 2.0
• Linking of Multiple OpenID's to a single Account
• Simple Registration Data (SREG)
• Provides Login statistics
• HCard Data
• 100% SSL Transaction Support
• Custom TrustRoot
• Attribute Exchange (AX)
• MySpace Data Availablity
• Engineering Implementation Support
• Custom White/Black List OpenID Providers
• SLA
• Login Widget Optionally Hosted and Customized
• 24/7 Support services over Phone/Email

New RPX Features and Services

OpenID and PAPE

OpenID supports the semantics of NIST authentication assurance levels via PAPE -- OpenID Provider Authentication Policy Extension 1.0. PAPE provides a mechanism for an OpenID authenticati on to return to the relying party with the strength of the authentication performed by the OpenID IDP declared in terms of NIST authentication levels (1-4).

For example, providing an OpenID managed by JanRain's "myOpenID.com", configured with JanRain's "Call VerifID" service, which invokes a cell phone call-based authentication process for validating user credentials, results in successful authentications that come back to the relying party specifying a "Level 2" authentication process was performed, employing a multi-factor token verification process.

JanRain has deployed a relying party sit e that provides tests and UI controls for accessing interoperable access to IDPs that provide authentication assertions for validated identities according to the NIST classifications. The servers at interop.janrain.com provide a simple set of inputs for providing an identifier to be authenticated, and will process those i dentifiers with the connected IDPs and return the results along with an extended set of reporting information about the a uthentication.

RPX and "Google Apps for Domains" OpenID

The JanRain RPX service is dedicated to help new visitors register and returning members login to your website quickly and easily. With recent updates from Google , the RPX services are now extended beyond the consumer web to offer easy sign-in to the millions of businesses, schools, and other organizations using Google Apps For Domains. Google now lets each of its customers enable OpenID provider support for their domain, which then makes it possible for members to sign-in to OpenID enabled websites using an OpenID from their own domain.

For example, when using Apps for Domains services at a company using their own branded OpenID with JanRain OPX, you can now simply type "company.com" to sign-in to OpenID enabled websites. Typing our domain into the dialog box triggers the standard OpenID authentication process. The user is redirected to the appropriate Google Apps Domain to authenticate. Upon authentication on the first visit, a user will complete the transaction with Google by authorizing access to account information.

Thanks to this new support, million of companies will now be OpenID-enabled. In addition all RPX customers are now able to accept sign-ins from anyone using Apps for Domains and have a great user experience. As an addition, using apps for domains and OpenID, not only makes login safer and simple, but you can verify membership of a group or organization at the time of login for access control purposes. For example, it's easy to only let people with OpenIDs from yourcompay.com login to your site. You can just create a button, point it at the RPX REST API, and then verify the domain of the user's identifier after authentication.

The RPX Developer Wiki

The RPX Developer Wiki is a resource for developers adding RPX-based authentication to their websites. Go to the wiki from here.