| By Kevin Fox | October 17th, 2007 | Comments [14]
The JanRain OpenID team is pleased to announce Information Card support has been added to MyOpenID.com
What is an Information Card?
What can I do with it? With a self-issued Information Card you can sign-in to MyOpenID, as well as sign-up and recover your account, without ever having to enter your password. Anywhere on MyOpenID that you can enter a password will now allow you to use an Information Card instead. With the addition of Information Card support MyOpenID is able to offer another solid option for people wanting to protect their OpenID account from phishing attacks and remember fewer passwords.
We were able to work with Microsoft’s Mike Jones and Kim Cameron who have both been long time proponents of OpenID + Information Card support.
As noted by Kim Cameron “Cardspace is used at the identity provider to keep credentials from being stolen. So the best aspects of OpenID are retained.” While one of the less desirable aspects (confusing user experience) has been improved for someone using an Information Card to login to their OpenID provider.
Support for Information Cards has been growing as more software projects implement the technology. It is important to note that this technology is being supported by many other organizations besides Microsoft. Information Card support is available for Windows platforms (Vista / XP) as well as Mac OS X and Linux.
October 18, 2007 at 3:07 am
[…] Fox just announced that JanRain has added Information Card support to MyOpenID.com. As he wrote: The JanRain OpenID […]
October 19, 2007 at 7:51 am
[…] at the back of my mind, though I have never got around to actually testing it. Yesterday MyOpenID announced support for Infocards so that seemed like a good point to start exploring it. However I failed […]
October 21, 2007 at 11:28 pm
I’d like to know how to removed my revoked infocard entry? I assigned it by mistake and revoked it already. But it still remains there… looks ugrly :S
October 29, 2007 at 11:43 am
Hmm. No one supports InfoCard except for MyOpenID and two Microsoft bloggers. Did Microsoft like pay you guys to add support for InfoCard or something?
October 29, 2007 at 11:56 am
@factoryjoe: Verisign also support Infocard for sign-in to their Personal Identity Provider site. The whole process feels clunky and cludgy to me, but it exists.
October 29, 2007 at 11:58 am
@factoryjoe: Verisign also support InfoCard for logging in to their Personal Identity Provider.
The user experience is pretty clunky and un-fun, but the option does exist.
October 29, 2007 at 2:24 pm
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November 1, 2007 at 9:29 am
How do you get it to work on Mac OS X?
November 1, 2007 at 10:47 am
Apparently you can use this plugin for Firefox: DigitalMe
November 2, 2007 at 10:16 am
Useful Idea, but I don’t know how to use this.
Is there a howto where everything is explained?
November 24, 2007 at 12:46 am
[…] So I logged into myOpenID to leave a comment on LiveJournal, and for the first time I noticed that support for Information Card has been added. […]
December 5, 2007 at 7:13 am
[…] they work together? Well, MyOpenID.com has included support for Information Cards. So in a sense, yes, they do. However, I have not yet […]
December 8, 2007 at 4:42 am
Is there an article about myopenid has implemented InfoCards with their infrastructior? I want to implement it with PHP to some of my sites.
December 8, 2007 at 4:43 am
How can I support InfoCard with PHP in some of my sites?