Star Microsoft Opens Up Windows Live ID
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 17th Aug 2007 02:22 UTC, submitted by randommsdev
Privacy, Security, Encryption Microsoft has announced the release of Windows Live ID Web Authentication. This means that WLID (formerly known as Passport) is now opened to third party websites to use as their authentication system. Any Windows Live user can potentially log in to a website that implements Web Authentication. Interestingly sample implementations are available in the Ruby, Python, Perl, and PHP open source languages amongst others -- tested on openSUSE 10.2 but expected to work on any platform that supports these languages. More details are available in the SDK documentation.
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RE[3]: And?
by WiggetyWhack on Sat 18th Aug 2007 15:43 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: And?"
WiggetyWhack
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2007-06-30

Actually, I prefer encrypting data solely owned by the owner, with the owners password.

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RE[4]: And?
by stestagg on Sat 18th Aug 2007 17:40 in reply to "RE[3]: And?"
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2006-06-03

It depends on the data. Often the website system has to be aware of the content of the users data (when they aren't logged in) in order to work.

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