My talk on OpenID, Drupal's implementation and the future of OpenID in Drupal for DrupalCon Boston 2008

1. OpenID + Identity
the future of user module

2. what is identity?

3. who are you?

5. James Ransom Walker

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7. Director of Education

8. July 10, 1977

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13. unique identifier

14. digital identity

15. walkah

16. walkah@walkah.net

17. james@lullabot.com

18. http://walkah.net/

19. http://www.lullabot.com/blog

20. http://drupal.org/user/1531

21. http://groups.drupal.org/
user/37

22. http://security.drupal.org/
user/12

23. http://association.drupal.org/
user/James_Walker

24. it’s a mess

25. what is OpenID?

26. OpenID is a free and
easy way to use a
single digital identity
across the Internet.

27. URL
http://walkah.myopenid.com/

28. globally unique

29. identifier
(like a passport ID)

30. anyone can provide

31. users can choose

32. security

33. SSL

34. certificate-based
authentication
http://myopenid.com/

35. two factor
authentication
http://myvidoop.com/

36. delegate

37. http://walkah.net/
http://walkah.myopenid.com/

38. OpenID 2.0

39. directed identity

40. “anonymous login”

41. user-friendly

42. extensible

43. SREG
Simple REGistration Protocol

44. AX
Attribute eXchange

45. PAPE
Provider Authentication Policy Extension

47. identity is
central

48. semantic web

49. OpenID is not

50. OpenID is not
an account

51. OpenID is not
a trust framework

52. (although central to
building one)

53. what about Drupal?

55. what’s in core?

56. Relying Party
support

57. creates
local accounts

58. associate multiple
OpenIDs

59. OpenID 2.0

60. directed identity
(works with yahoo!)

61. what’s not in core?

62. OpenID Provider
support

63. (full) SREG support

64. Attribute eXchange

65. what can Drupal
do better?

66. core support for...

67. multiple
authentication
systems

68. limiting
authentication
systems

69. weighting
authentication
systems

70. removing
assumptions

71. users = username
and password

72. and drupal.org?

73. http://drupal.org/user/1531

74. http://groups.drupal.org/
user/37

75. http://security.drupal.org/
user/12

76. http://association.drupal.org/
user/James_Walker

77. F T
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78. OpenID provider
https://id.drupal.org/

79. delegation
http://drupal.org/user/1531

80. directed identity
“drupal.org”

81. wanna help?

82. thank you