A third-party authentication protocol is designed and employed to exchange security assertions among involved parties.
Value-Add Innovation: Rather than having to post online listings and photographs of items, pay for a third-party authentication or even deal with shipping, TheRealReal simply collects an item from a consignor and sends them a check once it sells.
What happens when NBC decides Hulu is a bad investment, and creates an openly accessible content feed using third party authentication?
It's worth noting that Amazon is doing the same thing (but in a limited way) with it's S3 storage product, and eBay is supposedly testing third party authentication for purposes of verifying (but not changing) user feedback ratings.
And so, we're hoping to make it easier for people building FaceBook apps or just incorporating third party authentication in to their sites.
So, certainly the building blocks are there for a system like the one that we built but it's really up to the applications how they want to incorporate third party authentication like FaceBook and App into their apps.
All the basic site building blocks – Tornado comes with built-in support for a lot of the most difficult and tedious aspects of web development, including templates, signed cookies, user authentication, localization, aggressive static file caching, cross-site request forgery protection, and third party authentication like Facebook Connect.
A device the size of a car-alarm remote could one day unlock cars and homes as well as validate credit card purchases and bank transactions-all by reading the user's fingerprint and wirelessly transmitting it to a third party for authentication.
Figure 12 illustrates the relationship between the delays owing to the security process with a third party, for example, an Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) server, and the handover delay of the DMHP and MHP.
Kerberos provides an efficient approach whereby a trusted third-party authentication server is used to verify users' identities.
