Privacy, privacy. Interesting word: strange enough, I don’t think we have a decent correspondent in Italian. On one side you have titanic efforts for protecting it: think U-Prove, an entirely new kind of cryptography that actually prevents linkage (see Kim’s post about it; more details to come). On the other you have attempts…
Well, don’t get fooled. I’m not going to make any big philosophical considerations about technology and privacy (though I may do that in the future), but I will talk about the little project I’ve put together after three gintonics & the MIX party at TAO. I am often on the road. When I…
Next week I am going to MIX! If you are there as well and you want to take the chance to sync up on any of the topics you read about on this blog, feel free to stop me in the hallways: I am very easy to spot! (long hair, gesticulates a…
As mentioned in a post last November, Kim himself made us the huge honor of writing the foreword of our book “Understanding Windows CardSpace”. Today I had the same thrill as, while opening his blog, I’ve seen he dedicated an entire post to it!You know, it’s a strange feeling to go through…
[Edit: attached the sample app files] In short: I show a simple class that checks the signature of self issued tokens sent on a normal HTTP connection (as opposed to HTTPS); the same class takes care of generating a UniqueID and giving access to claims. It basically covers for the NoSSL case the…
You know, even before considering its merits (and they are many): I’ve always *LOVED* the sheer fact that the Higgins project exists.Higgins in the tangible proof that all this user centered identity talking truly is a movement that touches everyone. You have no idea of how many times, during the many briefings I…
From time to time it’s healthy to challenge the assumptions, and look at (allegedly) familiar things with new eyes. Few weeks ago I had to do just that with the idea of authentication: I wanted to shake a bit an audience of architects, and make them *think* about the problem instead of relying…
Good news everyone! Our very own Mike will represent Microsoft on the OpenID Foundation board of directors, which to me seems a natural choice given all the work he has done in that space (for example, this). Wait a minute, a Microsoft representative in the OpenID Foundation?!? If that surprises you, that means…
Few days ago I’ve been notified that the 2nd chapter of our book “Understanding Windows CardSpace” is now available for free online, on the pages of Code Project (takes some time to load from my connection, don’t give up). That’s a very big chapter, for architects and business decision makers, focused on showing…