As the vendor says, “SingleID is a distributed platform and thus no database of sensitive personal data is being built up anywhere.” There is nothing stored on any cloud: your information is stored and encrypted on your smartphone. The advantage, apart from having to no longer have to manage multiple passwords, is that you retain complete control over your identity information. This means that you also don’t have to worry about man-in-the-middle attacks, because there isn’t anything in the “middle.” There is no trusted (or even untrusted) third party because all the communication is between your smartphone app and the server that you wish to access. Think of the SingleID login ID number as your username for their service, so you don’t have to worry about keeping it a secret (like a OTP) because no one can do anything with this information. It is a clever hack, and once you get it setup you avoid a lot of infrastructure to get a secure login. There are code snippets for Wordpress blogs and regular web servers to get you started in adding the SingleID protection to these sites. Once you type in the number (which looks like a one-time password but doesn’t ever change), SingleID then authenticates you back to your phone, and asks if you want to login to this particular site. This turns the typical login dialog into a special form that asks for your SingleID login ID number. The second component of SingleID is a piece of open source PHP code that you place on your website. All of this identity information is tied to an eight-digit ID number in their database that is then displayed on your phone. You can include all sorts of things in this identity besides your name and address, including credit card numbers and other personal and business details. ![]() ![]() Once you install the app, you set up your identity either by typing this information directly into the app or via a webpage that you can import the details via a QR code scan. To accomplish this, they have two components for their tool: first is a series of smartphone apps (including Windows Phone along with iOS and Android).
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