OpenID Certification program wins 2018 European Identity and Cloud Award
I’m thrilled to report that the OpenID Certification program has won the 2018 European Identity and Cloud Award for Best Innovation at the European Identity and Cloud (EIC) conference. This recognition follows also being awarded the 2018 Identity Innovation Award at the IDnext conference in March. While the OpenID Connect standard won the 2012 European […]
OpenID Certification program wins 2018 Identity Innovation Award
I’m very pleased to report that the OpenID Certification program has won the 2018 Identity Innovation Award at the IDnext conference. While the OpenID Connect standard won the 2012 European Identity Award for best innovation/new standard and has been widely deployed since then, a standard is only as good as its implementations. The OpenID Foundation […]
Relying Party OpenID Certification Entering Production Phase
The OpenID Certification program for OpenID Connect Relying Parties has reached a level of maturity that the time has come to end the pilot phase, in which we were “testing the tests”. After August 8th, 2017, the Relying Party Certification program will join the OpenID Provider Certification program in production status. Thanks to those who […]
OpenID Implementer’s Drafts of Four MODRNA Specifications Approved
The OpenID Foundation membership has approved these specifications as OpenID Implementer’s Drafts. An Implementer’s Draft is a stable version of a specification providing intellectual property protections to implementers of the specification. OpenID Connect MODRNA Authentication Profile 1.0 OpenID Connect Account Porting OpenID Connect User Questioning API 1.0 OpenID Connect MODRNA Client initiated Backchannel Authentication Flow […]
Notice of Vote for Implementer’s Drafts of Four MODRNA Specifications
The official voting period will be between Friday, April 21 and Friday, April 28, 2017, following the 45 day review of the specifications. For the convenience of members, voting will actually open a week before this on Friday, April 14 for members who have completed their reviews by then, with the voting period still ending […]
OpenID Connect Logout Implementer’s Drafts Approved
The OpenID Foundation membership has approved these specifications as OpenID Implementer’s Drafts. An Implementer’s Draft is a stable version of a specification providing intellectual property protections to implementers of the specification. Session Management – Defines how to manage OpenID Connect sessions, including postMessage-based logout functionality Front-Channel Logout – Defines a front-channel logout mechanism that does […]
Notice of Vote for Implementer’s Drafts of OpenID Connect Logout Specifications
The official voting period will be between Tuesday, March 21 and Tuesday, March 28, 2017, following the 45 day review of the specification. For the convenience of members, voting will actually open a week before Tuesday, March 21 on Tuesday, March 14 for members who have completed their reviews by then, with the voting period […]
OpenID Connect Relying Party Certification Adoption
The adoption of the new OpenID Connect Relying Party (RP) Certification has exceeded our expectations – especially the surprising number of early adopters who tested a wide variety of implementations. The tests were improved at an accelerating rate, with many organizations actively “testing the tests”. All of the OpenID Foundation’s success metrics – the volume, […]
Review of Proposed Implementer’s Drafts of OpenID Connect Logout Specifications
The OpenID Connect Working Group recommends approval of the following specifications as OpenID Implementer’s Drafts: Session Management – Defines how to manage OpenID Connect sessions, including postMessage-based logout functionality Front-Channel Logout – Defines a front-channel logout mechanism that does not use an OP iframe on RP pages Back-Channel Logout – Defines a logout mechanism that […]
Initial OpenID Connect Enhanced Authentication Profile (EAP) Specifications
The OpenID Enhanced Authentication Profile (EAP) working group charter states that: The purpose of this working group is to develop a security and privacy profile of the OpenID Connect specifications that enable users to authenticate to OpenID Providers using strong authentication specifications. The resulting profile will enable use of IETF Token Binding specifications with OpenID […]