Strong Authentication for OpenID

[Drummond Reed]

Avery, this is fascinating stuff. I'm pretty tied up the next few weeks but
I'd love someone from Cordance to be part of the beta. Please feel free to
send me details.

Best,

=Drummond (i-name: =drummond.reed, http://xri.net/=drummond.reed) 

-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
Behalf Of Avery Glasser
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 6:05 PM
To: general at openid.net
Subject: Strong Authentication for OpenID

Since the end of 2005, my company has been developing a voice  
biometric based strong authentication platform for telephony  
applications. It's purpose is to provide a simple mechanism that  
would allow voice application developers the ability to easily create  
stronger authentication in advance of certain federal and industry  
regulations which require two-factor or biometric security for  
conducting certain key transactions. It has been in trial with our  
customers and partners for the past quarter and the current iteration  
has been very successfully integrated into applications ranging from  
financial services to password reset/helpdesk.

This morning, we have moved our first alpha version of the next  
release onto our QA server. The most significant issue is that we've  
built an OpenID wrapper around the core vAuth(tm) platform (sorry,  
the lawyer made me put the trademark symbol there) - allowing any  
OpenID enabled application to take advantage of an out of band,  
strong biometric authentication.

The implementation isn't complete by any means - but the basic  
functionality of being able to assert your identity and authenticate  
against an OpenID site is there. We've tested it on Livejournal,  
FirstSSO and Zooomr so far, and don't see any issues. We don't have  
the full web administration done where you can track usage, authorize/ 
deauthorize service providers yet, but that should be coming within  
the next three weeks.

I'm looking for between five and ten alpha testers to give the  
solution a good shakedown next week - and if it passes muster, we'll  
move the OpenID version into the sandbox where voice and web  
developers can get access for testing/developing demo and proof of  
concept applications.

If you're interested, just drop me a line.

-- Avery


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VxV Solutions, Inc.

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