Today's Fresh Blogs...

• DigitalMe for Mac passed the Interoperathon

  Published: July 8, 2007, 9:27 pm

  Tags: Windows Cardspace, Digital Identity, Identity Metasystem, Osis, Information Cards, Higgins, Digitalme

  Bandit’s contribution to the emerging identity metasystem is exceptional - we’re talking about the DigitalMe Identity Selector for Mac and Linux , as well as relying party components. I will post a download link as soon as one becomes available. Novell’s Dale Olds wrote about the Catalyst Conference and OSIS

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• The CardSpace dimensions

  Published: July 6, 2007, 1:22 pm

  Tags: Windows Cardspace, Information Cards, Identity Metasystem, Osis, Firefox

  he conceptualized his “information card dimensions”. Now I can share it with you because he posted it to his blog: While thinking about how Windows CardSpace could be used and extended I came up with this graphic. Thus the dimensions of Windows CardSpace are: Cardstore: Where is the cardstore? Service Providers store the

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Paul Madsen leaks internal photo

  Published: July 5, 2007, 11:55 pm

  Tags: Windows Cardspace, Information Cards, Identity Metasystem, Intellectual Property, Liberty

  of the first ever infocards assembly line. In the front you can see a worker inserting secret keys obtained from the bins below (the punch-card calculating machines on which those keys were generated are in another room). Other workers further down the line can be seen inserting attributes before securing the top of the cards with

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• PHP managed card provider

  Published: July 4, 2007, 5:15 pm

  Tags: Windows Cardspace, Identity Metasystem, Federation, Information Cards, Code, Strong Authentication

  decision based on this information. Current Status: This project has been tested with available releases of Windows CardSpace and the Firefox identity selector plugin. There are several Relying Party (RP) sites on the web to test against; in particular, the xmldap.org RP is able to consume Carillon STS infocards and display their contents.

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Including the whole spectrum of use cases

  Published: June 30, 2007, 4:51 pm

  Tags: Windows Cardspace, Identity Metasystem, Information Cards, Openid, Spoofing

  and ecosystem phase of Information Cards, but I can tell you many players get the potential of the technology and are integrating it into product. As for OpenID versus Information Cards, I don’t see them as opposites. Go to signon.com today and you’ll see it supports use of Information Cards for OpenID authentication.

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Catalyst Interopathon reveals sea change

  Published: June 29, 2007, 8:23 pm

  Tags: Windows Cardspace, Information Cards, Identity Metasystem, Osis, Federation, Openid, Higgins

  participating in the Information Card Interopathon at the Burton Group’s Catalyst Conference. Beyond that, people told me about at least half a dozen new open source projects (each with a unique mission) that are sitting in the wings getting ready to go public. I’ll try to keep you posted on these. We had a rehearsal

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Dave’s mother

  Published: June 29, 2007, 4:28 pm

  Tags: Windows Cardspace, Identity Metasystem, Information Cards, Sxip

  mother. Dave: Alright. CardSpace is an analogy my mother gets. She doesn’t understand what I do in a million years, but CardSpace she gets. She sees the cards. Everything else stops. Everything goes away. She can’t do anything else until she chooses a card. When she pulls our her purse, she sees her cards. And

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Trustworthy Computing Privacy Award

  Published: June 29, 2007, 1:45 pm

  Tags: Laws Of Identity, Windows Cardspace, Privacy, Information Cards

  into this new world of Information Cards and claims-based computing was intoxicating. But there was a second milestone as well - one which I had never predicted. And although it seems like a personal one, it really isn’t, so I hope you will let me share it with you. I received an award from my colleagues at Microsoft.

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Control, not nagging

  Published: June 26, 2007, 11:55 am

  Tags: Windows Cardspace, Information Cards, Identity Metasystem, Federation, Privacy, Liberty, Linkage

  idea about how her personal information is being sent around, or that with redirection protocols, her own browser is the covert channel for sharing her identity information between sites. This might be all right inside an enterprise, when there is an implicit understanding that the enterprise shares all kinds of personal information. It

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• CardSpace control for ASP.NET

  Published: June 25, 2007, 6:14 pm

  Tags: Windows Cardspace, Information Cards, Osis, Code, Visual Studio

  changes and releases of my CardSpace control (found some bugs, got some feedback), I wanted to consolidate all the information along with a new version and some new features here. It now contains all the features I need and will be the last release for some time i guess. If you have any feedback or suggestions feel free to write me or leave me

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Burton Group reports on user-centric interop

  Published: August 3, 2007, 6:43 pm

  Tags: Windows Cardspace, User Centric, Digital Identity, Identity Metasystem, Osis, Information Cards, Code

  The Burton Group has posted its evaluation of the user-centric interopathon held at this year’s Catalyst. The analyst is Bob Blakley, now with Burton and previously chief scientist for Security and Privacy at IBM Tivoli Software. Bob writes, “Prior to the event, there were some specifications, one commercial product, and a number of

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Linkage with CardSpace in Auditing Mode

  Published: August 5, 2007, 9:05 pm

  Tags: Laws Of Identity, Windows Cardspace, User Centric, Information Cards, Identity Metasystem, Privacy, Openid, Minimal Disclosure, Linkage

  control the movement of information, and this turns out to be bad. Why? Well, for one thing, if the user lands at an evil site it can take complete control of the client (let’s call this “extreme phishing”) and trick the user into a lot of evil. Let's review why this is the case. Redirection protocols have two legs. In

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Managed information cards for secure online purchasing

  Published: September 11, 2007, 1:07 pm

  Tags: Windows Cardspace, Digital Identity, Information Cards, Secure Payment

  Here’s news of an important technology demonstration from Ping Identity and ACI Worldwide at the upcoming DIDW Conference (just two weeks away in San Francisco in case you have forgotten to register). To put this in context, ACI Worldwide is the world leader in retail payments - over half the plastic card transactions in the world (55

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Start using DigitalMe for Mac

  Published: September 17, 2007, 4:36 pm

  Tags: User Centric, Identity Metasystem, Information Cards, Higgins, Bandit, Digitalme

  Over the weekend I installed “Digital Me for Mac” on my MacBook Pro and started using it with identityblog and other sites. It’s fast and totally does the trick. I’ve made a micro video demo that gives you an idea of what it’s like. The install worked just as it should. I ended up with a Bandit managed card -

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• MSN and Windows Live CardSpace Beta

  Published: September 21, 2007, 4:22 am

  Tags: Identity, Windows Cardspace, Identity Metasystem, Information Cards, Cardspace, Claims, Platforms, Digitalme

  can now use Information Cards at Hotmail and all the other MSN/Windows Live sites. Just go here to associate an Information Card with your existing account. I found that both Windows CardSpace and the Mac DigitalMe information card selectors worked beautifully with the system. It’s worth taking a step back to think about

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0