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23 sectionsContents
- Adoption
- Technical overview
- Logging in
- Identifiers
- OpenID Foundation
- People
- Chapters
- Intellectual property and contribution agreements
- Legal issues
- Security
- Authentication bugs
- Phishing
- Privacy and trust issues
- Authentication hijacking in unsecured connection
- Covert Redirect
- History
- OpenID versus pseudo-authentication using OAuth
- Attack against pseudo-authentication
- Verifying the letter
- OpenID Connect (OIDC)
- See also
- References
- External links
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OpenID is an open standard and decentralized authentication protocol promoted by the non-profit OpenID Foundation. It allows users to be authenticated by co-operating sites (known as relying parties, or RP) using a third-party identity provider (IDP) service, eliminating the need for webmasters to provide their own ad hoc login systems, and allowing users to log in to multiple unrelated websites without having to have a separate identity and password for each. Users create accounts by selecting an OpenID identity provider, and then use those accounts to sign on to any website that accepts OpenID authentication. Several large organizations either issue or accept OpenIDs on their websites.