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Allen Tom

Yahoo! Inc.

Allen Tom is the architect for Yahoo’s Membership team, and is responsible for Yahoo’s Authentication services, including OpenID, OAuth, BBAuth, and SAML.

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2:35pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008

A Critical View of OpenID

Web Applications
Location: Portland 252

Jason Levitt (Amalgamated Shoulderpads), Simon Willison (Self employed), Chris Messina (OpenID Foundation), Scott Kveton (Vidoop), Allen Tom (Yahoo! Inc. ) Moderated by: Jason Levitt

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OpenID (openid.net) is a single sign-on solution that has gained a lot of traction in 2008. Putting a critical eye to openid's many deployments, this panel will consider questions such as "how has openid succeeded/failed?," "how have end-users responded to openid?," "is openid safer/more-dangerous than other approaches?" "what are some openid success stories?," and "how could openid be improved?" Read more.