With few weeks of delay I finally forced in my schedule the conclusion of my little getting started series "... using Zermatt" (links to former episodes: setting up an STS for smartcard-backed managed cards & issuing smartcard-backed managed cards ). The first posts I wrote about Zermatt were all about producing identity info: today we'll take a look at consuming those info, something that will be done a lot more (there are only few mints, but an ocean of ways to spend the money they produce) and, fortunately, is also a dramatically simpler programming task. Before we go any further: Please. Read. Keith's. White paper . This series of posts is a quick & dirty guide, designed to get you started and to be easily found via search engines when you need a quick lookup: Keith's article is exhaustive & well polished, hence (together with the product documentation) should be your main reference. I am Vittorio Bertocci and I approve of this message (if you don't live in the US, nevermind :-)). Aaaaalllrighty, back to business. Thanks to the 2 former posts, we have an active STS and its associated managed card. Now we want to write a website which uses that STS for acquiring some info about our users in form of claims. Here the highest order bit is not the security paraphernalia we need to be familiar with when we work at the STS level: when designing an RP, the application biz requirements should be king. Taking that in mind, let's wear our web site dev hat and work backward
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