can you clearly explain the concept of passport authentication

Hi,

I found this introduction that I couldn't have written better myself:
"Passport is a single sign-on system developed by Microsoft. It allows websites who participate to unload some of the account management burden onto a shared and specialized authentication service hosted by Microsoft.
It is probably the largest dedicated authentication service on the web, as it is used by millions of Hotmail and MSN Messenger users.

It maintains a centralized list of accounts (usernames and passwords). When a Passport-enabled website needs to authenticate a user, it delegates this task to Passport, which in return provides an assertion about the identity of the user that is signed in.
The website only needs to understand these assertions or authentication proofs, but doesn't need to handle the authentication itself.
For the user, only one password is needed for a group of sites, which simplifies managing his account and improves his authentication experience."
You can read more here: http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000167...

Passport can be integrated with asp.net, there are a lot of tutorials to do this on the internet.

Hope this helped,
Anpanman

The basic concept is this....

Client visits your site, Client wants to login, Client is directed to passport signin, client signs in with their passport, client is returned to your site with an authentication key to say they are logged in.

If you plan on using it, remember that some people do not have a passport, so you need to have alternate methods, google also offer this service.

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