OpenID solves the problem of having far too many usernames and passwords to remember. OAuth solves the problem of how to share information between sites without giving your password from one site to another.
There are a lot of websites that require a username and password. Everyone I talk to hates that fact and typically uses the same username and password for each site. Granted security experts will complain loudly about this, but people do not want to compl
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