A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to facilitate authentication of a request, such as by a mobile terminal, while also supplying information about the user to a service, website, application or the like A method, apparatus and computer program product may provide for interworking a bootstrapping architecture, such as Generic Bootstrapping Architecture, and a shared identity service, such as OpenID architecture In this regard, a method, apparatus and computer program product may provide for a secure session with a service provider through Generic Bootstrapping Architecture while being able to supply the service provider with the user information and/or accessing a user account using OpenID architecture.