Password pain eased
Microsoft, IBM, Google and Yahoo have joined the board of the Open ID Foundation which aims to streamline login systems across the web. The Foundation wants to bring about a system that could mean one ID acts as a guarantor of a person’s identity across all the sites they have signed up for.
Already more than 10,000 websites have adopted the Open ID approach.
Open ID aims to remove some of the need to keep creating new login names and passwords by adopting the approach used by your computer when it looks up a site name you type into an browser address bar.
“Open ID was always intended to be a decentralized sign-on system,” said Brad Fitzpatrick, a Google software engineer who created OpenID while at blog software maker Six Apart. “It’s fantastic to join a foundation committed to keeping it free and unencumbered by proprietary extensions.”
