[OpenID] Google Identity Toolkit available with Account Chooser

[Eric Sachs]

Google has made available a service called the Google Identity
Toolkit<http://code.google.com/apis/identitytoolkit/>(GITkit) to help
websites become a relying party.  It is an external API
wrapper for the exact same infrastructure that Google itself is using to be
a relying party, and includes a JS widget for the same account
chooser<http://accountchooser.com/>experience that you can opt-in
to use on Google<https://sites.google.com/site/gitooldocs/experiment---account-chooser>.
 This toolkit will primarily be helpful for websites that currently allows
users to login with a traditional email and password.  Please try it out and
let us know what you think.

Once someone tries to log into a GITKit enabled site for the first time on a
computer, they will generally see a page like the one below:
[image: sampleadd.jpg]
The actual buttons shown may change based on their language or location.
 Users can also simply type their email address and the website can then try
to use that information to find the user’s identity provider.

After a user has logged into a website, it will be much easier for them to
log into the website in the future.  The website will present the user with
a page like the one below that lists the one or more accounts they have used
at the website:
[image: sampleAC.jpg]

The user simply clicks the account they want to use.  The website and
identity provider can then make sure that the person uses that particular
account.


We are working to enhance the relying party support of both Google itself as
well as GITKit to support more IDPs, especially those that use OAuth2
and OpenID
Connect <http://openid.net/connect/> style login APIs.  Fortunately the OIDF
has an upcoming September 12/13 OpenID
Summit<http://openid.net/oidf-summits/>hosted by Microsoft in Mountain
View, CA.  That summit will cover
OpenIDConnect as well as account choosers.

-- 
Eric Sachs | Senior Product Manager | esachs at google.com
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