Welcome to MyOpenID. Perspectives - Authenticating Hosts Via Self-Signed Certificates. OAuth Community Site. Getting Started — OAuth. Browser-Based Authentication. Yahoo! 's commitment to open standards includes our support for industry-standard protocols for authentication (sign-in) and authorization (access control). Yahoo! Developer Network offers easy ways for developers to use OpenID to authenticate users and OAuth to control access to protected data.
Yahoo! Authentication with OpenID Yahoo supports OpenID 2.0, which lets you develop a simplified login experience for your users. Authorization with OAuth OAuth is a secure and quick way to publish and access private data, such as contact lists and updates. Hybrid Protocol for Authentication and Authorization The OpenID-OAuth Hybrid Protocol eases the way for the hundreds of millions of Yahoo! In the past, this would have been two operations, but the Hybrid protocol combines both operations into one call. The Hybrid Protocol is YDN's recommended method for authenticating users and authorizing data access. Hybrid Protocol blog post OpenID + OAuth Hybrid documentation Authorization with BBAuth.