This is an exciting time; innovators are working on several new kinds of authentication technologies to replace or supplement passwords – in PARTICULAR, the use of hardware authentication devices and embedded cryptography.

These new methods can be adopted by OpenID Connect Identity Providers as they mature to provide more secure authentication to them. For example, two-factor identification is ALREADY in production at some OpenID Connect IDPs.

The fact that professionally RUN OpenID Connect IDPs can take advantage of these new technologies as they mature only increases the value proposition of OpenID Connect. Without doing anything extra, it means that OpenID Connect Relying PARTIES can benefit from the adoption of stronger authentication technologies by IDPs, SIMPLY because they already use OpenID Connect.

This is an exciting time; innovators are working on several new kinds of authentication technologies to replace or supplement passwords – in particular, the use of hardware authentication devices and embedded cryptography.

These new methods can be adopted by OpenID Connect Identity Providers as they mature to provide more secure authentication to them. For example, two-factor identification is already in production at some OpenID Connect IDPs.

The fact that professionally run OpenID Connect IDPs can take advantage of these new technologies as they mature only increases the value proposition of OpenID Connect. Without doing anything extra, it means that OpenID Connect Relying Parties can benefit from the adoption of stronger authentication technologies by IDPs, simply because they already use OpenID Connect.