OpenID 2.0 announced
September 4th, 2007 by Chris
OpenID is one of the main building blocks towards establishing the portability of personal data between social networks and other online services, a.k.a. decentralized data storage, decoupling the services used from data provided.
Major changes to the OpenID authentication specification, draft 11 to draft 12:
* Specify handling of URL fragments
* Realm verification using XRDS discovery
* Don’t allow unencrypted secret exchange unless operating with transport layer encryption
The draft is supplied by the company JanRain. They are encouraging open source to developers to join in the effort!