GenghisOne - You also asked: "how many of these things are out there?"
By this do you mean "How many OpenIDs are in use, and how widespread is OAuth?" Or did you mean "How many similar technologies are there?" - Trent Morten Fangel wrote: > In short: OAuth and OpenID exists to cater to two different needs. > > OpenID is authentication (verify that your login is correct) > OAuth is authorization (ensure you have the right to a protected > resource) > > So OpenID is something you can use as a alternative to having user > +password stored for each user on each site. > > OAuth is a way for a user to grant a someone (eg a photo printing > service) access to your private resources (eg your photos) over at > some other site (eg a photo sharing site), without the first one > knowing your credentials to the second.. > > (However some people do use OAuth as some sort of authentication- > scheme, like Twitter does, but this is not the expected use-case for > OAuth and OpenID would imho be better suited at the job) > > Did that clear it up (or even make sense?) > > -Morten > > On May 21, 2009, at 7:08 AM, GenghisOne wrote: > > >> Is OAuth the same thing as OpenID? If not, are there any documents out >> there that succinctly describe how many of these things are out there >> and how they are different? >> >> Thx. >> >> > > > > > -- J. Trent Adams =jtrentadams Profile: http://www.mediaslate.org/jtrentadams/ LinkedIN: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jtrentadams Twitter: http://twitter.com/jtrentadams --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OAuth" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/oauth?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
