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1. Slide 1: Understanding Digital ID World 2007 David Recordon Eve Maler Open Platforms Tech Lead Technology Director david@sixapart.com eve.maler@sun.com
2. Slide 2: \"Its definitely time to declare \"OpenID is a protocol made OpenID a winner\" for the public, by the public. TechCrunch No one owns or controls your login information:You do.\" 37signals \"...sees great potential for OpenID's use alongside enterprise-ready software infrastructure\" Sun Microsystems \"taking the world by storm\" \"this high profile announcement marks Tim O'Reilly the importance of single sign on identity technology to the future of the Internet\" ReadWriteWeb
3. Slide 3: What is OpenID? • Single sign-on for the web • Simple and light-weight (not going to replace your bank card pin) • Easy to use and deploy • Built upon proven existing technologies (DNS, HTTP, SSL/TLS, Diffie-Hellman) • Decentralized (you don't have to ask anyone permission to implement it) • Free!
4. Slide 4: An OpenID is a URI • URLs are globally unique and ubiquitous • OpenID allows proving ownership of an URI • People already have identity at URLs via blogs, photos, MySpace, FaceBook, etc • People already describe relationships via URLs (e.g. links to my friends)
5. Slide 5: OpenID is Decentralized
6. Slide 6: Benefits • Reduces the number of usernames and passwords • Simplifies new account creation • Allows for lightweight accounts • Simplifies internal SSO • Enables wide-spread benefit of strong authentication • Enables decentralized reputation • Enables social network portability
7. Slide 7: OpenID is one of Phil’s Anchors WikiPedia.org
8. Slide 8: ...but it also enables and powers
9. Slide 9: O M E Using OpenID D always with attributes -- now with claims
10. Slide 10: O M E How Does it Work? D
11. Slide 11: As a Conversation Who are you? I’m davidrecordon.com Prove it!
12. Slide 12: Discovers My Provider \"openid.server\" points to my OpenID Provider
13. Slide 13: (crypto happens)
14. Slide 14: Creating an OpenID pip.VeriSignLabs.com MyOpenID.com ClaimID.com MyVidoop.com http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/OpenIDServers and you may already have one
15. Slide 15: OpenID is Really Easy
16. Slide 16: \"This is a geek's toy, nobody will ever have an OpenID!\"
17. Slide 17: ~120 million OpenIDs (including every AOL user) OpenID 1.1 - Estimated from various services
18. Slide 19: \"Nobody will ever use this!\"
19. Slide 20: 6 Total Relying Parties 0 (aka places you can login with OpenID) 0 6,000 2 4,500 3,000 1,500 0 '05 ct ov ec '06 b ar r ay e ly g p Ap Au n Fe Se Ju O M M D N Ju p Jan Se OpenID 1.1 - As viewed by MyOpenID.com
20. Slide 21: Total Relying Parties (aka places you can login with OpenID) 6,000 4,500 3,000 1,500 0 '05 ct ov ec '06 b ar r ay e ly g p ct ov ec '07 b ar r ay e ly st 22 Ap Ap Au n n Fe Se Fe Ju Ju gu O O M M M M D D N Ju N Ju p p Jan Jan Au Se Se OpenID 1.1 - As viewed by MyOpenID.com
21. Slide 22: \"So that's great there are so many blogs, but what about something real?\"
22. Slide 24: \"What about security?\"
23. Slide 25: “Protocol Security?”
24. Slide 26: like any protocol...think as you implement
25. Slide 27: the best solutions will around the browser
26. Slide 28: Higgins & Bandit (open source identity selector plugin and desktop app with OpenID support)
27. Slide 29: MyVidoop Plugin (a password manager tied into your OpenID account add-on for Firefox)
28. Slide 30: Sxipper (a form filler password manager with OpenID integration add-on for Firefox)
29. Slide 31: Symantec Identity Client (OpenID form-fill, upcoming provider, and claims integration)
30. Slide 32: VeriSign's OpenID SeatBelt (an OpenID convenience and security add-on for Firefox) works with
31. Slide 33: IE Team has posted a job ad mentioning \"OpenID\" \"Does the idea of redefining the role of the Internet browser appeal to you? Do the terms HTTP, RSS, Microformats, and OpenID, excite you? If so, then this just might be the opportunity for you.\"
32. Slide 34: OpenID is great for innovation
33. Slide 35: \"What about the Foundation?\"
34. Slide 36: Founding Board Scott Kveton David Recordon Chair Vice-Chair scott@kveton.com david@sixapart.com Dick Hardt Martin Atkins Treasurer Secretary dick@sxip.com mart@degeneration.co.uk Johannes Ernst Drummond Reed jernst@netmesh.us drummond.reed@cordance.net Bill Washburn Artur Bergman Executive Director sky@crucially.net bill@oidf.org
35. Slide 37: Current Efforts • Add four corporate board members • Finalize an IPR policy for future technical work (effort let by OIDF, AOL, Microsoft, Sun, Symantec,VeriSign,Yahoo!) • Develop a trademark policy that supports the World-wide OpenID community • Develop and refined core messaging for OpenID and websites oriented toward developers, users, and other potential adopters • Coordinate World-wide joint marketing and evangelism (Snorri Giorgetti appointed as European representative)
36. Slide 38: “So, what about the enterprise?”
37. Slide 39: “What is OpenID@Work?”
38. Slide 40: • Exploratory program launched by Sun in May • Why? • Learn from experience! • Analyze use cases that connect business scenarios and “enterprise-strength” technology • Pass on our experiences to customers, partners, and others • What does it include? • An OpenID Provider (of a specialized sort) • Advising Sun website teams on OpenID • A non-assertion covenant (important IPR declaration) • Sharing what we learn
39. Slide 41: The Sun Provider • Only for Sun employees • http://openid.sun.com/nickname • These are effectively pseudonyms (and we don’t peek) • Can be used directly or with delegation • Use of Sun’s OpenID authentication service means: • “Yes, this person is associated with this OpenID” and “This person is a current Sun employee” • OpenID relying parties can act on this additional knowledge • e.g. offer discounts to proven Sun employees
40. Slide 42: Architecture Enterprise-class and open-sourced OpenSSO.dev.java.net/public/extensions/openid OpenSSO.dev.java.net http://blogs.sun.com/hubertsblog has more information
41. Slide 43: How are they being used? • Not for business use -- an “employee perk” • ProjectConcordia.org wiki (work-related use that I undertake on my own recognizance) • Not currently using for internal applications • Not a corporate approved authn mechanism • Currently low usage • <1% of employees have signed up (~350) • ~7% the number of employees on Facebook
42. Slide 44: Formal Security Review • Business purposes: What we are trying to achieve, so that risks can be appropriately measured and mitigated? • Data governance: What responsibilities do we have regarding employee data privacy? • Authentication: Why did we choose the password method? • Protocol and implementation: Where are the “holes”? • www.laurenwood.org/anyway - starting September 19th
43. Slide 45: Do Sun Websites Accept OpenID? • Pitched to several community site owners • No takers to date • Why? • Doesn’t completely remove local account management • Allows decentralized authorization only if everyone adopts it • No currently deployed OpenID standard for locally and third party asserted authorization claims • Business prioritization • Lost account costs not high enough • Not high-enough user demand
44. Slide 46: Offer all employees OpenIDs; open source Enterprise SSO and identity manager with LDAP and OpenID Internal SSO for bug trackers and wikis OpenID Provider with plans to ship in enterprise products this year Shared OpenID Provider for their businesses and partners Project management, CRM, and billing for small businesses
45. Slide 47: Thanks! Questions? http://openid.net/ http://sun.com/identity/ David Recordon Eve Maler davidrecordon.com xmlgrrl.com/blog/ david@sixapart.com eve.maler@sun.com