Code Spatter

Over the 3-day weekend I got together with a group of web developers that have free time on their hands and great ideas to throw around. On various occasions we had talked about how we wanted to make something that would be helpful to many people and maybe even change the world. We knew the [...]

We’ve set up a google code account since they offer awesomeness.
Project Info:
http://cyte.googlecode.com
Subversion:
http://cyte.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
Wiki:
http://code.google.com/p/cyte/w/list
Bugs:
http://code.google.com/p/cyte/issues/list

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There are a lot of phishing vulnerabilities with OpenID: see
http://marcoslot.net/apps/openid/ if you haven’t. One awesome solution I’ve come across is using
https://pip.verisignlabs.com/ as your OpenID provider and using their security key.
PayPal uses the security key also (and sells it for much cheaper). They send you a small device that fits on your key chain [...]

If you haven’t stumbled upon any sites that use OpenID yet, I’ll fill you in on why you might be seeing it in more places soon. OpenID is a decentralized, single sign on system which allows visitors to use one set of credentials for multiple websites. And, since it’s decentralized, there are many providers to [...]

In addition to the changes listed at
http://dev.cyproject.net/ , I will be modifying the OpenID authorization to be more usable.
The OpenID stuff packaged in the last release was just copied from
http://tinyid.us when I was writing it for that.
I will add another auth_routine that doesn’t require a database and will just use sessions like the [...]