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Surely there's a way to avoid implementing your own account system that doesn't drag in the massive unrelated architecture of a Facebook, Google, or Twitter. Yo
by marshray 15y ago
Surely there's a way to avoid implementing your own account system that doesn't drag in the massive unrelated architecture of a Facebook, Google, or Twitter. You don't even need SSO like OpenID.
Is there a company that just sells a no-frills user enrollment and login service and also provides strict isolation between sites? (I.e., they resist the temptation to leverage their aggregate user base.)
- sopooneo 15y agoWouldn't that pretty much describe any open id provider?
- marshray 15y agoWell, when I look at http://openid.net/get-an-openid/ http://openid.net/get-an-openid/ I see Google, Yahoo, Livejornal, Hayes, Blogger, Flikr, Orange, Mixi, MySpace, Wordpress, AOL... There are six 'simple' providers listed. Spot checking: One of them has broken SSL (https://www.myopenid.com/signup https://www.myopenid.com/signup sources https://api-secure.recaptcha.net https://api-secure.recaptcha.net which has an invalid certificate). One of them looks completely broken for new accounts: http://claimid.com/register http://claimid.com/register "This account is hidden or does not exist." And of course there's this: http://www.untrusted.ca/cache/openid.html http://www.untrusted.ca/cache/openid.html which describes various security and privacy problems with OpenID.
- jpk 15y agoMozilla wants to do it for free with BrowserID[1]. [1] https://browserid.org/ https://browserid.org/