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VeriSign's Personal Identity Provider (“PIP”) system
is built on top of community oriented, public protocols, such
as OpenID and Yadis. With PIP, users can create a personal profile once
and share it as often as they wish, while retaining tight control over
their information.
When using OpenID to login to a website, the users
are able to both approve the login request, as well as any additional
profile information the site requests. All of these logins and
profile exchange activities are recorded for easy auditing, just like
the credit card activity statements.
The Personal
Identity Provider paves the way for the future of personal
data control and sharing on the Internet. It allows users to feel confident
that their personal identity and data is safe and secure online.
OpenID is a simple framework of protocols to allow
users’ identity to travel with them on the Internet as they visit various
sites, assuming these sites support OpenID. It provides a solid platform
to build a scalable, interoperable, and privacy protecting identity
system. To learn more please visit http://www.openid.net/
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One of the core concepts behind OpenID is its evolving
community development. VeriSign is involved in the incubating
Heraldry project within the Apache Software Foundation. Apache is known
for its collaborative, consensus based development process, an open
and pragmatic software license, and a desire to create high quality
software that leads the way in its field. To learn more, visit the
project's Web site.
To further support Open Source adoption of OpenID,
VeriSign has issued a "non-assertion
covenant" promising that we will not enforce our patents
against OpenID implementations.
About Identity Management and VeriSign
VeriSign has been active in the Identity Management
space since its founding:
- We innovated and
defined trust models for online e-commerce with our SSL certificates
and business authentication processes.
- We developed the
“Seal of Trust” on-line which allows Users to know that they are interacting
with a legitimate website.
- We are participating
in the Liberty Alliance and have co-authored the WS-* suite of security
specification.
- We are participating
in defining the Identity Management framework for NGN.
All these solutions were primarily focused from the
Enterprise perspective, now we are looking at the space from the Consumer/End
User perspective.
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