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Courtesy of InternetNews on Tuesday I learned that IBM has added support for OpenID, Windows CardSpace and Eclipse’s Higgins Identity Framework to its Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (FIM) offering. As one of the enterprise identity management heavyweights, IBM’s announcement is an important endorsement of user-centric identity approaches. Such approaches are still in the formative phase [...]
Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 by adminUncategorized
Microsoft has acquired Canadian cryptography specialist Credentica. This news sees Microsoft reverting back to its more traditional approach of acquiring small (Credentica is a team of three) specialist technology vendors to plug very specific gaps. In this case, Credentica brings its U-Prove technology to Microsoft’s Identity & Access Group to enhance the privacy assurance capabilities [...]
Posted on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 by adminUncategorized
Perhaps it’s because we’re in the run up to the holiday season or because the press release came from the UK that accounts for the lack of commentary on the announcement that Experian has developed a CardSpace proof of concept with Microsoft. This is notable for a couple of reasons. First it’s another of what [...]
Posted on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 by adminUncategorized
Ben Laurie of The Bunker Secure Hosting has a provocative post about the two emerging (and that’s important) leaders in user-centric identity: OpenID and CardSpace. He quite rightly points out that at present OpenID’s: popularity is entirely on the provider side. There are no consumers of note. and that CardSpace: appears to live in its [...]
Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 by adminUncategorized
It’s perhaps unsurprising, given all the brouhaha surrounding Microsoft’s claims that open source software infringes on 235 of its patents (which incidentally I take to be largely ‘sabre rattling’ from Redmond in the face of the implications of the GPLv3 for its deal with Novell, as discussed in the Risk Factors of the latter’s recent [...]
Posted on Monday, May 28, 2007 by admin
