I’m digging all these new authentication methods coming out. OpenID will hopefully be the end all be all all of single sign methods. Passport is pretty much dead (I mean come on, who wants Microsoft to be their identity provider) even though it was a step in the right direction. Hopefully more and more websites will take OpenID so that I can permanently delete my passwords file… um, that I don’t store on my hard drive…
I also just sent off for my Verisign Paypal Security Key. Having two factor authentication for something non work related is pretty sweet. Hopefully this will catch on, but at same time I don’t want to have to carry one key for paypal, one for my bank, one for my email… if they all used OpenID and all shared the same tokens… now that would just be peachy.