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• New York Times on Passwords and Alternatives

  There is a new article by Randall Stross in the New York Times titled "Goodbye, Passwords. You Aren’t a Good Defense". I am thankful for this article and I think that we need more of them. It is targeted at a readership that is no expert in security and privacy; and never will be. It informs its readers that there are problems with passwords and that openid ( yet ?) isn't the solution either. I think that with Information Cards we are moving in the right direction. True, we are not there yet, but Read More... Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 6:22 AM from ignisvulpis | 1 Comments Filed under: CardSpace, information card, Information Card Foundation

• 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

• The Information Card Foundation: Helping Scale Mount Identity

  YAF? (“Yet Another Foundation?”) Some in the identity community have had that reaction to the announcement of the Information Card Foundation (ICF) today at the start of the Burton Catalyst conference in San Diego. As one of two members of the ICF board who also serve on the OpenID Foundation (OIDF) board (Mike Jones is the [...] Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008 9:30 PM from Equals Drummond | 1 Comments Filed under: CardSpace, OpenID, SAML, Information Cards, ID-WSF, General, I-Cards, Identity Commons, Social Web, Relationship cards, Information Card Foundation, Mount Identity