login.gov is open source! They also encrypt user data in a way that they can't access it without the user's password, precluding the formation of a national registry that could be used towards nefarious and anti-democratic purposes. As a result, account recovery looks a lot like re-registration, which I think is a great thing.
It's built on Rails, and I'm really impressed at the engineering decisions that were made here, from choice of technologies to level of transparency. I wish all public sector projects could exhibit the same leadership and competence demonstrated for login.gov--the interface is even a pleasure to use, which is hard to say for most government online services outside of the UK and parts of Canada in my experience. Bravo!
https://github.com/18F/identity-idp
It's built on Rails, and I'm really impressed at the engineering decisions that were made here, from choice of technologies to level of transparency. I wish all public sector projects could exhibit the same leadership and competence demonstrated for login.gov--the interface is even a pleasure to use, which is hard to say for most government online services outside of the UK and parts of Canada in my experience. Bravo!