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Using your favourite websites and services could soon mean memorising far fewer passwords.

Tech giants 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.

Password pain

At the moment, using a new web service typically means registering, laboriously entering personal details and thinking up another login name and password.

Open ID aims to remove some of the need to keep creating new login names and passwords by adopting the approach used by a your computer when it looks up a site name you type into an browser address bar.

The Open ID approach revolves around an already established web identity that people nominate as their core identifier.

When this identity is used to sign on elsewhere, requests are sent back to the original place it was created to be verified.

While this could mean that people employ one login ID to for all the sites they use, it is more likely to let people significantly reduce the number of online identities they maintain.

Different identities could be maintained for different purposes.

"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."

The backing of Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, IBM and Verisign will give the project more momentum as between them these firms look after services that have hundreds of millions of users.

No information has been given about when the Open ID system will be used on the web services, such as Live Mail or GMail, that the companies run.

Prior to the companies joining the Open ID board Yahoo had pledged its support. It created a trial system that let people user a Yahoo login as their Open ID. In a similar move Google allows people to leave comments on Blogger postings by singing in with their Open ID.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7234499.stm

my personal opinion is altho this idea in theory is relitively interesting its open to abuse, UNLESS their security is cutting edge and l mean cutting edge like what the military prolly have access to it wont work, l DONT like the idea of one site logs into all, the whole idea of a password is to be secure, when one password fits all you end up becoming somewhat insecure, in this case it would mean example hacker only needed to hack one ID and have access to everything!

in any case the only hope l have is this doesnt end up being another .net passport service which extends to online shops etc because l dont want any company but the company l purchase from to have my bank details.
 
Hi Timless,

I fully agree with your line of reasoning. I wonder if it will turn out to be an acident waiting to happen. I don't like the idea from the start, I would sooner have a load of different I.D's and passwords all different, than go down this new line of thinking. But knowing the powers that run these things it will come about, I just hope that those of us that want to stick with the present system can do so.

Regards Paul.
 
indeed, ld rather have passwords l cant remember than ones l do lol thats why l love the thumb drive, l can pop it in a computer and away l go logging into any site l choose that lve signed up for...
 
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One user name and one password.

That will certainly make it easier for the authorities to spy on us, but of coarse they will deny it, and as already mentioned security etc.

I too would prefer to stick to the system we already have.
 
where theres a will theres a way and where theres tight security theres always a hacker who wants to make a name for himself cracking it.
 
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