[OpenID] Microsoft pledges support for OpenID

Rasqual Twilight oid at rasqual.silk.com
Wed Feb 7 16:28:03 PST 2007


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Microsoft Corp. has thrown its weight behind OpenID, an emerging Web authentication standard. The announcement was 
made Tuesday at the RSA Conference in San Francisco during a joint keynote by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Chief 
Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie that was long on vision and short on specifics. Microsoft pledged to work to 
integrate OpenID with its CardSpace identity management software, which is now available in conjunction with Windows 
Vista. "The marriage of CardSpace and OpenID 2.0 is actually a giant step forward," Mundie said. 

By integrating these two technologies, Microsoft expects to "eliminate the issue of the man-in-the-middle-attack," Mundie 
said. In these attacks, which are increasingly being used by phishers, a thief steals sensitive information by setting up a fake 
Web site that passes information back and forth between the victim and the legitimate Web site. OpenID is an emerging 
open-source standard that simplifies the task of logging on to many different Web sites.

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Source: InfoWorld
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/06/HNmsopenid_1.html



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