Neustar
Since last week, I have officially become a Neustar employee (I had been consulting for a while). I really owe this opportunity to none other than =PeterD (Peter you really need to update your blog!). Although I’m primarily involved in spec writing for the UltraViolet project (bringing some additional perspective from the federated identity angle), I also...
It’s not all sexy stuff
[ Dave Birch ] Im giving a talk on identity services as a potential new business for mobile operators, and Im trying to make the point that there are routine, everyday, prosaic applications for this kind of thing: its not all about opening bank accounts and reporting deaths.
...But my password has to be between...
Experimenting With Client Certificates
I was recently contacted about yet another attempt to use client certificates for authentication. As anyone paying attention knows, this has some attractions but is pretty much unusable in browsers because of their diabolical UIs. So, I was fascinated to learn that this particular demo completely avoids that issue by implementing TLS entirely in Javascript!...
Market failure
[Dave Birch] I was in a meeting today discussing some ideas for introducing a sort of trust service, that could fit in a framework along the lines of NSTIC but as a commercial proposition. You know the general idea: a...
Simple cases
[Dave Birch] I've been looking at a survey undertaken by UK Online's "myopinion" panel in connection with the Technology Strategy Board's VOME project that Consult Hyperion are involved in. Researchers from the Information Security Group (ISG) at Royal Holloway, University...
USTIC
[Dave Birch] It's taken me a while to sit down and read through the US Government's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (USTIC) paper that is out for comment. I've tried not to read it just as a technical...
Faces
I remember discussing this with someone -- but due to my advancing years, I can't remember who -- a few months ago after reading some of the reputation-realted discussion on the Burton Group blog. The discussion about Personas Need Reputation, Too! was about what a protocol to support reputation might look like. The idea...
On the money
I remember discussing this with someone -- but due to my advancing years, I can't remember who -- a few months ago after reading some of the reputation-realted discussion on the Burton Group blog. The discussion about Personas Need Reputation, Too! was about what a protocol to support reputation might look like. The idea...
Nigori: Protocol Details
As promised, here are the details of the Nigori protocol (text version). I intend to publish libraries in (at least) C and Python. At some point, I’ll do a Stupid version, too.
Comments welcome, of course, and I should note that some details are ...
Catalyst Europe is Coming Up Fast!
Blogger: Bob Blakley We hit the stage for Catalyst Europe on April 19. If you haven't already made your plans to join us in Prague, we've got a little treat for you at the end of this post. We're going...
Oracle and Sun Clear a Big Hurdle
Blogger: Lori Rowland Thursday the European Commission gave Oracle its unconditional approval to take over Sun Microsystems. Oracle still awaits approval from other jurisdictions including Russia and China, but given the EU’s ruling it is likely that these approvals will...
Identity and Leadership: Sorely Lacking the Latter
Blogger: Kevin Kampman Last weekend, my wife and I conducted a whirlwind friends and family tour of western Washington State. Starting Friday morning in Seattle, we drove to Marrowstone Island, then to Glacier via Port Townsend, Deception Pass, and Bellingham....
