is THE authentication protocol on the rise. Software is moving to the cloud, zillions of web apps out there can do everything from photo editing to money management, everybody is on facebook, you can do spreadsheets in google. All you could do on your desktop is now on the web, even storage. The major drawback is the number of passwords you have to remember (around 30 for me). With OpenID, all you need to log in an openID enabled service is your url (mine is http://www.thibautwdowiak.com). The website wanting to check your ID no longer have to keep your credentials, they ask an OpenID provider (to which you register) if the url you entered is really yours. This way, you only have to authenticate to your OpenID provider. Isn’t this cool stuff!
There is even more to this: you can leave comments using your openID, and if your openID is also the url of your blog, you might get traffic from the places where you left comments.
This blog is openID enabled!!
