With OpenID, your password is only given to your identity provider, and that provider then confirms your identity to the websites you visit. Other than your provider, no website ever sees your password, so you don’t need to worry about an unscrupulous or insecure website compromising your identity.

How do I use OpenID?

1. Enter your OpenID into a supporting web site’s login form.
2. Your browser then sends you to your OpenID provider to log in.
3. Log in to your OpenID provider with your username and password.
4. Tell your provider that the original web site can use your identity. You are then sent back to the original web site.

Who uses OpenID Connect?

As of March 2016, there are over 1 billion OpenID-enabled accounts on the Internet (see below) and approximately 1,100,934 sites have integrated OpenID consumer support: AOL, Flickr, Google, Amazon.com, Canonical (provider name Ubuntu One), LiveJournal, Microsoft (provider name Microsoft account), Mixi, Myspace, Novell …