A P2P Blog System with OpenID Integration

Abstract

Blog services become popular in recently years. Web users can post their articles through the services. On the other hand, the users do not have full control of the articles after posted while the services are built with client/server model. Therefore, we propose to use peer-to-peer (P2P) technology to establish blog services. However, the anonymous feature disables the P2P technology to conduct user identification. The OpenID provides secure and unified authentication mechanism to improve the anonymity. In addition, the OpenID has the single sign on procedure to reduce redundant, multiple accounts and passwords. The paper presents a blog service platform which integrates the P2P networks and the OpenID authentication mechanism together. Therefore, users can establish their own blogs easily with full control. The platform can be utilized for other Internet applications as well.