Updating the PIP
Today at the Burton Group's Catalyst conference in San Francisco during an interoperability event this evening, we'll be demoing a pre-release of our upcoming update to our Personal Identity Provider. This update touches every aspect of the PIP, providing the foundation for a identity management platform from VeriSign.
Over the next few weeks, leading up to the launch of this update, we'll be looking at the new features one-by-one in a series of blog posts. From a high-level, you can look forward to the following, but overall we've focused this release on security, control, and convenience:
Check it out, but please realize that any accounts you create will go away in a few weeks when we fully transition the PIP. http://jpip.verisignlabs.com
Over the next few weeks, leading up to the launch of this update, we'll be looking at the new features one-by-one in a series of blog posts. From a high-level, you can look forward to the following, but overall we've focused this release on security, control, and convenience:
- Completely redesigned interface to make the PIP easier to use
- Support for OpenID 1.1 and 2.0
- Ability to create multiple identities managed from within a single user account
- New "tag based" profile data management interface making it easier to view and sort all of your profile data
- Ability to download managed Information Cards for each of your created identities to use with technology such as Microsoft's Cardspace
- Strong authentication support via second-factor credentials from the VeriSign Identity Protection network, along with the ability to have a one-time PIN sent via SMS or email if you've forgotten your credential
- Phishing-resistant logins using both VIP credentials and managed Information Cards
- Full activity logging so you can have a complete picture of where you've used your identities
- Integration with our own "OpenID SeatBelt" FireFox add-on to provide additional convenience and security protections when using OpenID identities from the PIP, AOL, Xlogon and MyOpenID.com
Check it out, but please realize that any accounts you create will go away in a few weeks when we fully transition the PIP. http://jpip.verisignlabs.com
