The Internet Identity Provider (IIP) of clavid.com is an Internet portal, which you permits to manage and control all aspects of your digital identity online. The IIP of clavid.com uses OpenID and SAML protocol to garantee a secure online communication. Whatever, if you check emails, order a book or participate an online auction, you do not have any longer to registrate or login yourselves to every Website separately.

The central login portal clavid.com will do it for you. Clavid.com makes a Single Sign-On (SSO) possible to all OpenID supported Web services.

For best possible protection of your personal identity information, clavid.com supports in addition to username/password further two- and three-factor authentication methodes such as SSL Client Certificates, One-Time password generators (YubiKey, SMS) and Biometrie (fingerprints). More about clavid.com authentication methods you will find here .

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How can I get a clavid.com user account?

On clavid’s homepage http://www.clavid.com you will find a registration box. Go through the registration process and indicate some few personal information. With a successful registration you will receive an email with a link for verification your email adress. The email address is important for clavid.com, because you can repair your clavid.com user account in case of losing your login information.

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Must I announce my personal identity information to clavid.com?

The only personal information you must indicate is your email address. In case you forgot your login information such as password, etc. we can contact you by email for the account recovery process.

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How can I change my password?

You can change your password on clavid portal. Login to https://www.clavid.com/portal with your user name and password, or with your preferred authentication method , and go to menu "Account Settings" > "Password Settings". You can change your password by input your old password and your new password twice. It is recommended to change your password for safety reasons every 3 months.

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OpenID

What is an URL?

Uniform Resource Locator is a compact string of characters used to represent a resource available on the Internet. In popular usage and many technical documents, it is a synonym for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
URL's identify resources over network protocol http:// and the location in computer networks. Further information you will find here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Url

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How works an OpenID?

You will find a detailed description of a OpenID user authentication on our homepage under the following link .

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How can I get an OpenID?

Register on clavid.com and get your personal clavid user account. With a successful registration you will receive your personal OpenID.

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Where can I use my OpenID?

A selection of OpenID supported Web services you will find under the following link: http://openiddirectory.com/

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How can I configure a OpenID delegation?

An OpenID delegation permits you to use your own Web Domain as OpenID Domain. Usually the authentication is delegated to a OpenID provider. For a delegation you must add a few lines of HTML code on your Web Domain, usually on index.html or default.html. Further information you will find here: http://wiki.openid.net/Delegation

<html>
<head>
   <title>My OpenID</title>
   <link rel="openid.server" href="http://www.clavid.com/provider/openid" />
   <link rel="openid2.provider" href="http://www.clavid.com/provider/openid" />
   <link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://myusername.clavid.com" />
   <link rel="openid2.local_id" href="http://myusername.clavid.com" />
</head>
<body>
   <h1>My OpenID delegation to myusername.clavid.com</h1>
</body>
</html>

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How secure is OpenID - Phishing?

In the media OpenID is criticized again and again due to security doubts. In addition, an only one digital identity brings many advantages, holds a quantity of risks, like for example the phishing:

Phishing - not only OpenID knows this problem, phishing is a wide-spread phenomenon and concerns all Web services such as banks, credit card enterprise, Paypal, Ebay, etc. With Phising is tried to pretend an official web page to the user, in order to approach financial or other personal data.

The phishing risk can be eliminated completely by different measures. If OpenID will be combined with strong authentication methods like digital SSL Client certificates, One-Time Passwords (OTP) or with biometric identities, for the user it is practically impossible to pretend without warnings of a phising attack.

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Where I get to know more about OpenID?

OpenID Foundation: http://www.openid.net

OpenID Europe: http://www.openideurope.eu

OpenID Switzerland: http://www.openideurope.eu/community/switzerland/

General: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID

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Certificates

What is a Swiss Post Certificate?

A Swiss Post Certificate is a digital client certificate (X.509 standard). The certificate issuer is the Swiss Postal Office. Further information you will find under the link: http://www.postzertifikat.ch

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What is a X.509 Certificate?

X.509 terms a specification of a digital certificate based on an international IT-standard. Further information to X.509 certificates you will find in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.509

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