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Java OpenID Library - Target Audience

By Will Norris | Published: December 24, 2009
One of the decisions that has to be made, or at least considered, early in the design of any software project is identifying your target audience. This is especially true of libraries that are designed to be integrated into other applications. Who do you expect to be using this library, and how do [...]

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Java OpenID Library Design - Message Handling

By Will Norris | Published: November 13, 2009
This past June I contracted with Internet2 to work on adding OpenID support to the Shibboleth Identity Provider. I had actually started to work on this over a year prior while working at USC. At the time there were (and still are) two primary OpenID libraries in Java, Verisign’s JOID, and Sxip’s OpenID4Java. [...]

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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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Why I’m going to Vidoop

By Will Norris | Published: May 15, 2008
So it’s not exactly news at this point, but it is indeed true that as of today I am now employed by Vidoop. This has been a few months in the making, so I figured I’d explain a little of why and how we got to this point. I’ve been working in the Identity Management [...]

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New Beginnings

By Will Norris | Published: April 18, 2008
I guess I never actually mentioned it here on my site, but I’m getting married in two weeks. If you remember, I originally moved to California for Elisabeth a little over two years ago, and now we’re finally getting married. We’re both definitely excited about it, but at least for the next week [...]

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