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OpenID: History, Art & Standards

OpenID is an open standard and decentralized authentication protocol promoted by the non-profit OpenID Foundation. It allows users to be authenticated by co-operating sites (known as relying parties, or RP) using a third-party identity provider (IdP) service, eliminating the need for webmasters to provide their own ad hoc login systems, and allowing…

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OpenID topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Art and Standards as prominent areas in the source structure around OpenID. 1 topic appears in more than one source area, which can help identify connections that are less obvious in a linear reading.

Related topics
85
Source areas
7
Connected nodes
94
Extracted relationships
175
Concept neighborhoods
21
Bridge connections
94

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Adoption · 26 topics
History · 24 topics
Overview · 12 topics
Security · 11 topics
Technical overview · 11 topics
OpenID Connect (OIDC) · 1 topics
OpenID Foundation · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Adoption

Technical overview

OpenID Foundation

Security

History

OpenID Connect (OIDC)

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How OpenID connects Entity context

The extracted context around OpenID shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, OpenID → Amazon, AOL, As, BBC, Blogger, Canonical, Facebook, Facebook Connect, Flickr, Google, IBM, Internet, LiveJournal, March, May, Microsoft, Mixi, Myspace, Novell, OpenID-enabled Another extracted example is OpenID → After, Brad Fitzpatrick, DeadJournal, Extensible Resource Descriptor Sequence, In, Initially, Internet Identity Workshop, Interoperability System, JanRain, June, LID, Light-weight Identity, LiveJournal, May, NetMesh, NetMesh's, October, OpenID-based, Six Apart, The. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

OpenID

Top relations

related to Adoption · 32
OpenID → Amazon, AOL, As, BBC, Blogger, Canonical, Facebook, Facebook Connect, Flickr, Google, IBM, Internet, LiveJournal, March, May, Microsoft, Mixi, Myspace, Novell, OpenID-enabled
related to history · 25
OpenID → After, Brad Fitzpatrick, DeadJournal, Extensible Resource Descriptor Sequence, In, Initially, Internet Identity Workshop, Interoperability System, JanRain, June, LID, Light-weight Identity, LiveJournal, May, NetMesh, NetMesh's, October, OpenID-based, Six Apart, The
related to Authentication bugs · 17
OpenID → An, Both, Data Type Confusion Logic, Flaw, For, Google, Google's, Identity Provider, IdPs, If, In March, Mail, PayPal, RP, The, Yahoo, Zoho
related to Covert Redirect · 13
OpenID → Covert Redirect, It, Mathematical Sciences, May, Nanyang Technological University, OAuth, On May, Physical, School, Singapore, The, The OpenID Connect, Wang Jing
related to OpenID Connect (OIDC) · 13
OpenID → February, In, It, JavaScript, JSON, OAuth, OIDC, OpenID Connect, OpenID Foundation, Published, REST-like, RESTful HTTP API, The OpenID Connect
related to Legal issues · 11
OpenID → August, In Europe, It, March, NetMesh Inc, OpenID Europe Foundation, OpenID Foundation, Randy, Reddig, The OpenID, United States
related to Phishing · 11
OpenID → For, In, In December, On, OpenID Foundation, OpenID Providers, PAPE, Provider Authentication Policy Extension, Relying Parties, Some, This
related to Identifiers · 9
OpenID → HTML, Identity, Once, OpenID-enabled, OpenID-enabled URL, They, To, URL, Yadis
related to OpenID versus pseudo-authentication using OAuth · 8
OpenID → Although OAuth, APIs, If, Note, OAuth, OAuth Token, OpenID URI, The
related to Attack against pseudo-authentication · 6
OpenID → Conversely, If, Note, OAuth, OAuth2, Therefore

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

authentication identity user provider relying party may end oauth users foundation use protocol url user's used website also support google

OpenID relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 175 structured relationships around OpenID. Examples in this analysis include OpenID → is a → open standard and decentralized authentication protocol promoted by the non-profit OpenID Foundation and encryption of identity data → instance of → supporting optional features. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
OpenIDis aopen standard and decentralized authentication protocol promoted by the non-profit OpenID Foundation0.90text
encryption of identity datainstance ofsupporting optional features0.80text
discovery of OpenID providersinstance ofsupporting optional features0.80text
and session managementinstance ofsupporting optional features0.80text
OpenIDrelated to AdoptionAs0.60section
OpenIDrelated to AdoptionMarch0.60section
OpenIDrelated to AdoptionOpenID-enabled0.60section
OpenIDrelated to AdoptionInternet0.60section
OpenIDrelated to AdoptionAOL0.60section
OpenIDrelated to AdoptionFlickr0.60section
OpenIDrelated to AdoptionGoogle0.60section
OpenIDrelated to AdoptionAmazon0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around OpenID bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Identity, Provider and Relying. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • OpenID
    • Identity
    • Provider
    • Relying
    • Party
    • Authentication
    • User
    • End
    • May
    • Foundation
    • Support
    • Users
    • Website
  • openid
    • Identity
    • Provider
    • Relying
    • Party
    • Authentication
    • User
    • End
    • May
    • Foundation
    • Support
    • Users
    • Website
  • open standard
    • Protocol
    • May
    • Foundation
    • Request
    • Identifier
    • Standard
    • Authenticate
    • Allows
    • Also
    • Community
    • Service
    • Using
  • authentication
    • User
    • Provider
    • Protocol
    • Identity
    • Openid
    • End
    • Website
    • Party
    • Oauth
    • Relying
    • Users
    • May
  • openid foundation
    • Identity
    • Provider
    • Relying
    • Party
    • Authentication
    • User
    • End
    • May
    • Foundation
    • Openid
    • Support
    • Verisign
  • relying party
    • Party
    • Relying
    • End
    • Provider
    • User
    • User's
    • May
    • Identity
    • Request
    • Credentials
    • Url
    • Users
  • identity provider
    • Party
    • Relying
    • Provider
    • End
    • Openid
    • User
    • May
    • Support
    • Service
    • Announced
    • Used
    • Use
  • light-weight identity
    • Provider
    • Openid
    • User
    • Party
    • Relying
    • End
    • Support
    • Use
    • Url
    • Protocol
    • User's
    • May

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For OpenID, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects OpenID with Adoption. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
OpenID — Adoption · splits 68 ⟂ 27
OpenID — History · splits 69 ⟂ 26
OpenID — Overview · splits 82 ⟂ 13
OpenID — Technical overview · splits 83 ⟂ 12
OpenID — Security · splits 83 ⟂ 12

Map overview Semantic statistics

OpenID

Nodes95
Edges94
Triples175
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.021053
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around OpenID to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Art & Standards, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — OpenID · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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