Secure Personal Identity Provider

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For those who are tired of having to remember dozens of usernames and passwords, Verisign has launched PIP (Personal Identity Provider).

VeriSign's Personal Identity Provider (PIP) is an identity hub that allows you to manage all aspects of your identity online. The PIP uses OpenID to allow secure interactions online The PIP provides many choices of authentication types. To best protect your vital information, the PIP supports the highest grade of SSL encryption available today, as well as strong second factor tokens and SMS one time passwords. It should be your choice how you interact online and VeriSign understands this. The PIP lets you control with whom and how much you share information and should be your identity agent on the web.

You can use it at any website that works with the emerging OpenID program, and there's a handy plugin that integrates it into Firefox.

Your ID will read yourid.pip.verisign.com

The names are allocated on a first come first serve basis, and during the beta period, are free. So snap up your name while you can.

https://pip.verisignlabs.com/