Today, Google announced its move towards single sign-on by supporting OpenID based authentication for all its users.

But we already supported logging in with Google accounts, so what’s new? Well, we asked you to share your Google account password with us, and we would then send it over to Google to verify your credentials. That required you to trust us that we would not do anything bad with your Google password. The new authentication system solves this trust issue. Once you choose to login with your Google account, you are redirected to Google’s website, and your authentication is entirely handled by Google. We never get to see it!

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