{"id":452,"date":"2006-05-19T10:55:42","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T18:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=452"},"modified":"2006-05-19T10:55:42","modified_gmt":"2006-05-19T18:55:42","slug":"verisign-introduces-new-personal-identity-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"VERISIGN INTRODUCES NEW PERSONAL IDENTITY PROVIDER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dotnetjunkies.com\/WebLog\/paul\/archive\/2006\/05\/18\/138599.aspx\">Paul Mooney<\/a> at dotnetjunkies here&#39;s news&nbsp;about&nbsp;a free personal identity provider from Verisign.&nbsp;&nbsp;It&#39;s great&nbsp;to see a bunch of talented people at Verisign throwing their weight behind Identity 2.0.&nbsp; The identity metasystem can only result from the confluence of all of our efforts &#8211; and here I&#39;m speaking not only of vendors, but of writers, architects,&nbsp;top management&nbsp;and technical leaders all across IT.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I had a nice chat with <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.verisign.com\/infrablog\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Mike Graves<\/a> of VeriSign at the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/syndicate+conference\" class=\"broken_link\">Syndicate Conference<\/a>&nbsp; yesterday. I&#39;ve met many people who work for VeriSign, but this is the first time I talked to one with a blog.<\/p>\n<p>Mike was part of the Authentication and Feeds breakout and I asked him if VeriSign would ever come out with a five dollar certificate &#8211;&nbsp;<em>how about free<\/em> &#8211; was his reply.<\/p>\n<p>So I checked-out&nbsp;Mike&#39;s blog and found out about it:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.verisign.com\/infrablog\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Introducing the VeriSign Personal Identity Provider (PIP)<\/a><\/strong>You&#39;re invited to visit and try out a beta version of an identity service we&#39;ve provided. It&#39;s called the VeriSign Personal Identity Provider<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What Can I Do With The VeriSign PIP?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>When you register at the VeriSign PIP, your user name is used to generate a unique URL for your profile. My username is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mgraves\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, so my OpenID is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/mgraves.pip.verisignlabs.com\/\" class=\"broken_link\">http:\/\/mgraves.pip.verisignlabs.com\/<\/a>. Now when you go to a site that supports OpenID, you can provide your OpenID, and use it instead of having to register separately for each site.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/winfx\/reference\/infocard\/default.aspx\">InfoCard<\/a> will arive with Windows Vista, so PIP is an opportunity for us to get to learn about what&#39;s required for identity, trust and authentication.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verisign has a new initiative aimed at helping to build Identity 2.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}