You may have noticed that registration on this site has been opened up and allows you to create an account using credentials from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Wordpress.com or your OpenID.
It's a trend I've been seeing more and more of on other sites and it makes sense to implement authentication mechanisms from other providers. As an exercise in security best practice it removes the requirement for
yet another username and password as well as reducing the dilution of password entropy by re using the same passwords linked against your email address.
This is the dream that OpenID was created to realise but with Twitter, Facebook, et al rolling out robust authentication mechanisms of their own it makes sense to offer a number of options.
Anyhoo, let me know how you get on with it and if you have any problems. It's something I'd love to see rolled out over more sites and I hope that my little corner of the internet can join a growing trend.
