This week’s VRM Workshop at the Berkman Center in Cambridge, MA was quite interesting. It helped me quite a bit to sort out how Identity Management and VRM intersect, but also differ in some respect. To put it in a…
Category: Identity
OpenSocial and Liberty People Services are really tackling the same problem – only from two opposing sites. While the LAP PS has established a solid foundation for secure identity management, OpenSocial has started out to define an API for allowing…
While Germany and Europe in general have some of the strictest rules regarding the use and storage of personally identifiable information, the last few months have seen rather extreme data security breaches. Today, the German media is reporting about a…
Just back from Orlando, here are some takeaways from this year’s TechEd 2008 for IT-pros: Interoperability with SOAP based web services is progressing: I was part of a panel on interoperability, moderated by Chris Haddad. It was a fairly diverse…
It took quite a while, but by now it is out. Please welcome the Windows CardSpace Information Card extensions for OpenSSO: https://opensso.dev.java.net/source/browse/opensso/extensions/authnicip/ When I started working on this last spring, I was not even hoping to see this released in…
Pat, Ben, and Kim have been talking about the use of password tokens for use with Windows CardSpace. Pat’s detailed description of how this could work is quite useful, and can be extended in some interesting ways: 1. Create a…
Eve was kind enough to link to my earlier article on our CardSpace Deep Dive. In that post she mentions our whiteboard notes, that I took at picture of, after all: Cards based on X.509 authentication are almost working ……
Hubert and Marc have been working on a very interesting subject: using RESTful service for identity. Please take a quick look at Hubert’s blog – he is working on a series of articles on this subject. tag: Identity, REST
Not about SCUBA this time: we are right now visting in Redmond so we can test our implementation of a Windows CardSpace compatible IdP against Microsoft’s implementation. Eventually, we will (hopefully) make this code available to the OpenSSO community through…
Another one done. IIW 2007b is over, and – overall – it was quite productive for me. The biggest takeaway for me is that Concordia and OSIS have made – in my mind – a major step towards harmonization and…