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Has CardSpace become Passport?

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

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Shock, horror: Microsoft and Concordia

Microsoft agrees to participate in ID project … For the first time representatives of Liberty Alliance and Microsoft are going to sit down together … Microsoft is to meet this month with vendors and organisations that are backing several different identity management systems. The Microsoft meeting suggests that cooperation between the software giant and its [...]

Posted on Thursday, June 7, 2007 by

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Sun's OpenID programme: definitely something to watch

Sun yesterday announced: a new initiative around support for OpenID, a decentralized, web-friendly single sign-on mechanism that allows consumers to reuse a single login across different websites, tackling the “login explosion” problem. OpenID is currently limited to facilitating low-risk transactions such as blog comments. Through its new initiative, Sun is exploring what changes and practices [...]

Posted on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 by