Tuesday, December 29, 2009

The advantages of OpenID.

In Amnesia we decided to use OpenID and GMail for user authentication primarily for following reasons.

  1. We could concentrate on functionality of Amnesia Toolbar than do user profile management which thousand other service providers are doing better and offering for free.
  2. We did not require much info from the user except her/his GMail ID so that we could keep in touch if required.
  3. We would be more than glad even if we are able to get even a negligible fraction of number of GMail users on Amnesia.
  4. From our user's point of view, they do not have to bother with remembering passwords either.
  5. And we got rid of all security add-ons to our user management like secret questions, capthca etc.
Simple. So have a Gmail ID? Get a direct access to Amnesia system. Else spend some time and get one from here. After all you can always do with another 7 GB of mail storage ;).




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