Google touts single sign-on

Google is encouraging other Web sites to embrace a single-user-name-and-password system, rather than requiring users to memorize separate account information for each site they visit. Google argues that a single-sign-on system, based on the OpenID standard, would improve convenience and could even improve security by preventing users from signing into some sites that haven't been secured.

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