Mike made a very good remark on the OSIS General mailing list that seems relevant to the discussion between Pam, Paul, and myself about assurance in distributed security: There’s a reason that self-issued cards didn’t provide any ability to transmit…
Category: Identity
Paul found an “periodic” table of data visualizations, which is quite nice in its own right (Paul: I think I have seen a knowledge map of the identity landscape some time ago). But I certainly prefer this “periodic” table of…
… that I will not let anybody break my windows – also, they seem to be a little stronger than the Jones’ windows, at least the big one in the spotlight. In the latest round, Pamela explains how a particular…
Paul Trevithick just announced that Higgins will start developing a SAML 2.0 compliant card selector, that will – in addition to Windows CardSpace compatible i-cards – support SAML 2.0 compatible “s-cards”[1]. This will be quite interesting to follow, in particular…
Paul and Pam seem to think that my stance on assurances and trust is hard-line. No Assurance vs. Pseudonymity Paul seems to agree with me to some extend while noting that a concept like self-issued cards can establish a stable…
Well, this is over … and on to the next. The last week was quite busy since Mrudul Uchil (from the OpenSSO team), Jiandong Guo (from Metro) and I were scrambling to teach OpenSSO to issue InfoCards for Windows CardSpace…
This comes through Lauren. I can only fully agree with her recommendation of watching and sharing this clip with anybody that has kids or is concerned about the security of our children. You need to have flashplayer enabled to watch…
Tim Bass responds to my objections to his earlier article on the immaturity of modern identity protocols. He makes the valid point that the maturity of a technology should not be measured by the time it has been available, but…
Paul picks up on an article by Pam about level of assurance with Windows CardSpace. He emphasizes the important point that assurance is not only affected by the underlying technology, but also by non-technical parameters like contracts. I would go…
It seems that history is about to repeat itself: after Liberty formed, a lot of people wither felt left out or did not understand what all this ‘identity stuff’ was good for. Granted, Liberty was in 2002 about 5 years…