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About OpenID
There’s plenty information on the internet about OpenID, so I won’t go into myself.
- OpenID Screencast by the brilliant Simon Willison
- OpenID on the Wikipedia
- Information on the OpenID protocol
About SLOpenID
If you’re not familiar with OpenID, please visit the links in the previous paragraph. If you’re not familiar with Second Life, read Linden Lab’s information on Second Life.
The “Vision”
To provide the Residents of Second Life a means to own their virtual identities via OpenID
What SLOpenID does
SLOpenID uses WordPressμ to provide Second Life Residents with an OpenID. While in it’s alpha stage, SLOpenID used a standalone PHP server, but it was found to be too cumbersome, and wasn’t really useful other than as an OpenID.
By modifying WordPress themes to have a dynamic content area where they’d normally display the contents of blog posts, Residents can completely control how their OpenID is presented.
Identity Fraud
Since SLOpenID is all about managing your Second Life identity, SLOpenID aims to prevent identity fraud as much as possible. Services such as onXiam allow their users to say who they are on other sites and services- including Second Life!. onXiam doesn’t (at the time of writing) authenticate a users statement of identity however.
If there is a service that Residents use provides a means of authenticating their users to another service- such as flickr- then SLOpenID will provide Residents with a means to prove to others that they are that user on that service. Where a widget exists to pull data from a service, it will be customised to use the service’s authentication API- if one doesn’t exist then one will be created.
Services that cater solely to Second Life Residents which do not have an authentication API that SLOpenID considers to have a reliable registration process will be the only services that will be supported without authentication. If at any time the registration process for such a service is found to be compromised, support for that service will be withdrawn from SLOpenID. For information on such services, see the list of services that SLOpenID supports.