Lessons Not Learned
Anyone who has not had their head under a rock knows about the DigiNotar fiasco.
And those who’ve been paying attention will also know that DigiNotar’s failure is only the most recent in a long series of proofs of what we’ve known for a long time: Certificate Authorities are nothing but a money-making scam. They provide...
In the long run, it’s all about identity
[Dave Birch] The mobile phone is going to transform payments, we all know that. But what will be the key long-term impact of the technology?
And another factor is…
[Dave Birch] It's time for the more widespread adoption of two-factor authentication in financial services.
Anywhere, anyone
[Dave Birch] Just because we haven't figured out how to make identity into a business that doesn't mean that no-one will.
Having another go
[Dave Birch] The UK's new administration is going to have another go at identity infrastructure. I'm sure they have learned the lessons from last time.
And I’ve got my bronze swimming certificate
[Dave Birch] We're a long way from having an infrastructure that can help with educational and resume credentials, although we can see how one might work, I think.
In your Facebook
[Dave Birch] The Internet of things is inevitably going to collide with social networking. We're involved in a Technology Strategy Board (TSB) project that is investigating this by linking mobile phone location information to Facebook -- and already producing some interesting results, but I won't spoil it by discussing them here, you'll have to wait...
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A well-known problem with anonymity is that it allows trolls to ply their unwelcome trade. So, pretty much every decent cryptographic anonymity scheme proposed has some mechanism for blacklisting. Basically these work by some kind of zero-knowledge proof that you aren’t on the blacklist – and once you’ve done that you can proceed.
However, this scheme...
Why Identity Is Still Just Login
It seems everyone now agrees that Internet identity is about a collection of assertions relating to a person (or thing, if you want to go there). Some of these assertions are assertions one makes about oneself, for example “I like brussels sprouts”, and assertions others make about you, for instance “Ben is a UK citizen,...
Front end
[Dave Birch] We've often looked at the natural strategy of using identity infrastructure as the "front end" to payment infrastructure. To put it simply, if you have an id card in your pocket (or, more likely, your phone) wherever you go...
My multiples
I make no comment about whether the disorder is real or not (the TV show wasn't that interesting) but there's no doubt in my mind that when it comes to the virtual world, multiple personalities are not only real, but desirable. Here's a good reason for not having your Facebook...
Share and share alike
I've scoured the coverage to find out exactly what it is that the "Get Online" campaign and the "Fraud Prevention" campaign plan to do about identity infrastructure and I've looked through the Cabinet Office " Manifesto for a Network Nation " (which does not mention identity or authentication even once) to find out what the...
