DotNetOpenId v3.0 Beta 1 released
Tonight DotNetOpenId, soon to be renamed DotNetOpenAuth, released beta 1 of the major v3.0 release. You can download the bits from Ohloh. Although downloads should remember that as a beta…
DotNetOpenId is looking for a new home
DotNetOpenId started on Google Code. But we’re outgrowing it. We’d like to move to a shared hosting server where we can have automated tests, nightly builds, and a better web…
DotNetOpenId v3.0 to feature built-in OAuth support
The next major release of DotNetOpenId, slated for a release in or around March 2009, will add OAuth support to the mix. If you don’t know what OAuth is, it…
Why using RPXNow is a bad idea
Janrain has been a great influence in the OpenID community and I thank them for all their efforts. They are, nevertheless, a company that must generate profits, and their recent…
OpenID on Classic ASP
Several people have asked for an OpenID library for Classic ASP. Yes, it’s several years deprecated, but there are still some major and smaller sites using it. Classic ASP allows…
DotNetOAuth source code to be released eminently
Microsoft attorneys have signed off on the open source release of the DotNetOAuth source code that I’ve been building in my spare time. It should show up in the public…
Your security is inversely proportional to the number of OpenID Providers you use
Just a quick note if you’re familiar with OpenID’s XRDS documents and how they allow you to have one ‘omni-Identifier’ that lists all your other OpenID providers and identifiers so…
Enable international characters in OpenID domain names
If you’re using DotNetOpenId, you should consider enabling .NET to use IDN, or the International Domain Name scheme to enable users with international characters in the host name of their…
Why OAuth can’t be ignored
Do you realize that your email password is probably your most sensitive piece of information? You should never, ever give it away. Not to another "trustworthy" web site, and not…
What’s coming for DotNetOpenId and DotNetOAuth
Did you even know DotNetOAuth existed? It’s alpha quality right now but that will change soon. OAuth and OpenID serve two orthogonal needs, and although Google is trying to combine…