How is OpenID implemented?

Question

How would you design and implement OpenID components?

(Was \"How does OpenId work\")

I realize this question is somewhat of a duplicate, and yes

Answer 1

Jeff has a great article on OpenID where he shares his experiences:

OpenID: Does The World Really Need Yet Another Username and Password?

There are some links to tutorials on the official OpenID site:

http://openid.net/developers/

You can get a nice login-control for OpenID (which also is used here on stackoverflow) here:

http://www.idselector.com/