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Introduction

LID is a quite simple, but powerful technology that empowers individuals to keep control over and manage their on-line digital identities. LID uses URLs as identifiers, is fully decentralized and supports multiple underlying protocols such as OpenID, Yadis and PGP/GPG. LID functionality can be easily added to a URL that you own already, such as your blog. It's also very simple, interoperable, extensible, and secure. It is the original URL-based User-centric Digital Identity technology.

• Read more on What is LID and why does it matter?
• Frequently Asked Questions (General, Security, Architecture and Technology, Other Systems)
• News: LID and Yadis
• News: Current events
• News: A Comparison of Identity Vocabularies looks at Liberty Alliance, LDAP, Microsoft CardSpace (aka InfoCard), Sxip, SREG and LID
• News: The Case for OpenID (published by ZDNet)

LID Architecture

How can I use LID?

• A Guided Tour Through the Land of LID
• Sign up at the hosted LID service http://mylid.net/
• LID Implementations
• Howto's:
  • Get a LID URL How-To
  • Turn Your Blog Into a LID URL
  • LID-Enable Your Website How-To
  • No Username and Password at Site B, if you are logged into site A How-To
  • MyLID.net FAQ

How does it work?

• Essence of LID: the four simple ideas behind LID.
• MinimumLID, LID Services and LID Look and Feel: the LID technology
• LID and Yadis
• LID and REST
• LID Terminology

How can I learn more or get involved?

• For developers: Project Ideas, LID By Example and developer mailing list [1]
• And please feel free to contribute to this wiki with questions, answers, better explanations etc.