Tag Archives: directed identity

A New Kind of OpenID Proxy

By Will Norris | Published: August 3, 2009
After writing last weeks post on directed identity, I really got to thinking on the topic a little more. One of the things that has always bothered me about the prospect of sites requiring the use of directed identity, is that it means I can no longer use my self-hosted OpenID to login. [...]

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Best Practices with Directed Identity

By Will Norris | Published: August 2, 2009
Given the current discussion happening right now around federal website cookie policies, and the good response I got from my last post, I wanted to continue talking about directed identity a little bit. In this post, I want to talk about how directed identity has actually been implemented in projects I’ve been involved with, [...]

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Directed Identity vs Identifier Select

By Will Norris | Published: July 31, 2009
I initially started writing this post a couple months ago in response to the common misuse of the term “directed identity” I was seeing in the OpenID community. After reading Dirk Balfanz’s guest post “Users vs. Identity Providers in OpenID” on Eran Hammer-Lahav’s blog, I decided it was important to get this posted. [...]

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