Tuesday, July 08, 2008 - Posts

• ICF is public!

  At long last the Information Card Foundation launched on June 24th after spending about a year and a half in the works. The first year was all about discovering new, clever ways to not start the foundation. Probably the biggest mistake was to start by trying to get corporate sponsors. The problem is that when [...] Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:35 PM from In Context | 1 Comments Filed under: Uncategorized

• Relyingparty Best Practices

  Some days ago I went to a kiosk to buy some ice cream for me and my family. I ordered four cones with one scoop of chocolate ice cream each. When I received the first cone I found a huge pile of chocolate ice cream on the cone. I reminded the seller that I had ordered only one scoop and got the answer that this mountain of at least five scoops was _one_ scoop. Hm. The relying party now has a problem. Its subsystems (kids) already saw the offered claims so there is now no way to plainly reject the Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 10:42 AM from ignisvulpis | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, multiple claims

• Carnards Die Hard

  A while ago two students, Xuan Chen and Christoph Löhr, from Ruhr University Bochum claimed to have "broken" CardSpace. There were some blog reactions to this claim. The authoritative one of course is from Kim . Today I browsed through a magazine lying on the desk of a colleague of mine. This magazine with the promising title "IT-Security" repeats the false claim and reports that the students proved that CardSpace has severe security flaws... Well, when you switch off all security mechanism Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 5:39 AM from ignisvulpis | 1 Comments Filed under: CardSpace, Security, Information Card Foundation

• Physical metadata (or advertising language capabilities)

  I don't dis resemble the Swedes - my Danish ancestry (and a likely history of Viking raid-enabled intermarriage) at work. Consequently, it's not unreasonable for a Swede (e.g. a waitress, etc), on assessing my ability to speak their language when they first size me up, to err on the positive side. In Sweden my actual language abilities do not match my advertised abilities, as expressed by my physical metadata. This is not the case in Japan. There, my appearance (facial and otherwise) advertises a Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:04 AM from ConnectID | 1 Comments