Yahoo Id - Open Id2.0

January 21, 2008 in Yahoo
Tags: Internet, Technology, website, Yahoo

Users of Yahoo! services worldwide will soon be able to use their Yahoo! IDs to sign into other Web sites, thus saving them the trouble of remembering different IDs and passwords of different Web sites.

Yahoo! has announced support for the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework, an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity, which eliminates the need for multiple user names across different Web sites, simplifying the online experience.
For all those geeky types out there, OpenID takes advantage of existing Internet technologies (URI, HTTP, SSL, Diffie-Hellman), and intelligently understands that people are already creating identities for themselves, whether it is for their Blogs, photo-streams, profile pages, etc. With OpenID, it’s possible to transform one of these existing URLs into an account that can be used at Web sites that support OpenID logins.

So users of Yahoo! services will now be able to use their Yahoo! IDs for easy access to any Web site that supports OpenID 2.0.

Still in adoption stage, OpenID has already been accepted by some big players, including AOL, Microsoft, Sun, and Novell, who’ve even started providing OpenIDs.

According to industry estimates, presently there are over 120-million OpenID-enabled URLs with nine thousand sites already supporting OpenID logins.

Yahoo! OpenID service will be available as public beta from January 30, 2008. Users will be able to use their custom OpenID identifier on me.yahoo.com, or simply type www.yahoo.com or www.flickr.com on Web sites that support OpenID 2.0.

Alternatively, Web sites that accept OpenID 2.0 will have a “Sign-in with Your Yahoo! ID” button on their login pages.

Meanwhile, no email or IM addresses of users will be revealed or disclosed as part of the login process, as a protection against phishing and other attacks, Yahoo! claims.

source www.techtree.com