Thanks Robert! This is great. :) On 4/2/10, Robert Ott <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello from OpenID Switzerland (OpenID Local Chapter), > > I just want to share some information on what happened in the first quarter > 2010 on the topic OpenID here in Switzerland. > > > Geneva OpenID & OWASP Application Security Forum 2010 > > We see that the term OpenID gets more and more a topic in Switzerland. We > had a public OpenID and OWASP event called "Geneva Application Security > Forum 2010" in Geneva, Switzerland on March 4th which was a huge success. > See also at: > - > http://www.openid.ch/en/2010/03/praesentationsfolien-des-geneva-2010-openid-event/ > - > http://www.citadelle-electronique.net/2010/03/geneva-application-security-forum-un.html > > We aimed to bring about 50-80 people together and we ended up (after > increasing the conference room two times) with more than 250 registered > people and more than 200 attending. We realized that there is a demand for > people in the topics strong authentication in conjunction with OpenID / > OWASP. > > A big THANK-YOU to Sylvain Maret (Swiss French Area Delegate for OpenID > Switzerland) and Antonio Fontes (OWASP Geneva Local Chapter) and many others > for all the preparation work before, at, and after the event. We also thank > Yubico which sponsored 200 YubiKey's (http://www.yubico.com) to deliver > strong authentication OpenID capabilities with YubiKey's for ALL attending > users. > > > SuisseID goes OpenID > > It is also a pleasure to inform you that the project ‘SuisseID goes OpenID” > of Clavid got accepted for funding by the SuisseID project jury in order to > provide easy-to-use OpenID capability for SuisseID. SuisseID is the national > e-ID of Switzerland launched on May 1st 2010. > Every owner of a SuisseID is therefore capable to use OpenID with SuisseID. > That gives direct access OpenID enabled sites using the strong > authentication possibility of SuisseID. As a result, the SuisseID can be > used for thousands of web sites already enabled for OpenID. > > Just one month before the actual SuisseID launch, Clavid’s OpenID service is > already fully SuisseID enabled and therefore the first public online service > supporting SuisseID. > > For additional information go to the Clavid web site at clavid.com/suisseid > > Videos on how to use SuisseID with OpenID are available at Vimeo > > > > What Swiss People Wish from OpenID > > We asked some people what they would expect from OpenID. Many of them stated > that they wish that more BIG internet services would accept OpenID as > relaying parties. Names such as Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, XING, etc. got > especially named that they should allow users to use their OpenID to access > such services. Many people do also not recognize that Facebook is already a > BIG OpenID relying party because there is no 'Login with OpenID' button on > the Facebook's login screen. If the OIDF could talk to responsible people at > those companies and convince them about allowing OpenID based login to their > services, I think many people would appreciate it. > > > That's about it from Switzerland for the 1 quarter 2010 > > Robert Ott, OpenID Switzerland > >
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