OpenID and OAuth think that they have a collective right answer, but Facebook clearly thinks that it has its own. As Louis Gray told me in a discussion about the subject, it will likely come down ...

Today, Google and Plaxo released a hybrid protocol that combines OpenID, the open online identity standard, with OAuth, the secure data portability standard. Too often, when a Website wants to ...

Taken together, OpenID and OAuth establish an open, reusable means of turning the whole web into your own personal social network.

Another day, another major internet security flaw (step aside, Heartbleed). A bug has been found in OpenID and OAuth 2.0, two authentication programs that let you log into web sites using your ...

A serious vulnerability in both the OAuth and OpenID protocols could lead to complications for those who use the services to login to websites like Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Microsoft ...

The vulnerability targets OpenID and OAuth, two open-source login tools that allows users to sign up or sign in at other websites using their existing information on other websites, such as ...

OpenID provides one login for a variety of sites, and is used to authenticate that you are who you say you are. OAuth authorizes access so that, say, one website can get your information elsewhere.

Signs continue to point in a positive direction for OpenID. Representatives from major web companies and innovative players are meeting at Yahoo today to discuss the user experience of OpenID and ...

No more! The Hybrid Protocol allows Plaxo to encapsulate their OAuth authorization request inside the OpenID authentication request, letting Google know that the user wants to use both APIs.