Light-weight Identity (LID), or Light Identity Management (LIdM) is an
identity management system for
online digital identities developed in part by NetMesh. It was first published in early 2005, and is the original URL-based identity system, later followed by
OpenID
OpenID is an open standard and decentralized authentication protocol promoted by the non-profit OpenID Foundation. It allows users to be authenticated by co-operating sites (known as relying parties, or RP) using a third-party identity provider ...
. LID uses
URLs as a verification of the user's identity, and makes use of several open-source protocols such as OpenID,
Yadis {{Unreferenced , date= November 2013
Yadis is a communications protocol for discovery of services such as OpenID, OAuth, and XDI connected to a Yadis ID. While intended to discover digital identity services, Yadis is not restricted to those. Othe ...
, and
PGP/
GPG.
See also
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Digital identity
A digital identity is information used by computer systems to represent an external agent – a person, organization, application, or device. Digital identities allow access to services provided with computers to be automated and make it possibl ...
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Online identity
Internet identity (IID), also online identity or internet persona, is a social identity that an Internet user establishes in online communities and websites. It may also be an actively constructed presentation of oneself. Although some people choo ...
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Online identity management
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SAML-based products and services
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is a set of specifications that encompasses the XML-format for security tokens containing assertions to pass information about a user and protocols and profiles to implement authentication and authorizat ...
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Federated identity
Identity management