Friday, August 24, 2007

Verisign supports PayPal Security Key for OpenID

VeriSign now supports the PayPal security key (and their own) for logging into their PIP OpenID server. So now you can have an OpenID login that uses two factor authentication. Oddly enough, if you buy Verisign's own security token (identical to the PayPal token) they make you create an account that does not support OpenID!
OpenID is the great promise that just won't happen. Maybe I am impatient. The most useful site that I have found that uses OpenID is Hampr, which is a bookmark site like del.icio.us but without the social stuff. Just a private bookmark repository. I have used OpenID on LiveJournal as well but unfortunately I am already using Blogger so I am not eager to change. My bookmarks are hardly worthy of a security token. If only my bank would use OpenID...