Openid Presentation - A Quick Introduction

Distributed Identity Management
University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil April 14, 2008 Corsin Camichel, ccamiche@hsr.ch

Agenda
Traditional login process
What is OpenID
How OpenID works
Live Demo
For Developers
Your Questions

Login Today
How many accounts do you have?
GMail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail ...
MySpace / FaceBook / StudiVZ ...
How many different passwords do you use?

The Way A Login Works
Register for an account (share your data)
Verify your email address
First login with the new account
Server verifies credentials
Repeat steps for any other website ...
End up with 30 accounts on 30 websites

What is OpenID?
new open standard for logging in
identified by URI (AHV, finger print)
http://openid.hsr.ch/ccamiche
http://cocaman.ch
Single-Sign-On (SSO)
only one password used
over 250 million accounts worldwide

The OpenID Way
You create an OpenID
You can use your Flickr account, Google Account or any other provider out there
Go to the website
Login with your OpenID
Define what data you like to share
That is it. You have created an account

OpenID Login

How It Works

The Process In Detail
Creative Commons Wiki

Data not being shared
Your Password
Things you do not want to give the website (see my “ personas ”)

Developers I
Create an user account based on OpenID data
Respect the specs
Becoming part of Firefox 3.0 & Internet Explorer 8
Big companies start to use OpenID (Yahoo, Google, VeriSign, Microsoft ...)

Developers II
Many ready-to-use implementations for PHP, Java, Ruby ...
Add-ons for CMS, Wikis and others
No hassle with the detailed specification

Fears
Phishing
Man-in-the-middle attacks
Remember: It is only an Authentication, NOT an Authorization system

More Information?!
http://openid.net
http://openid.net/developers/specs
http://myopenid.com

Any Questions?

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