http://www.zdnet.com/blog/digitalid/rss en-us The big news out of the RSA conference is the announcement of a "marriage" of OpenID and CardSpace. For those that aren't up on the inner workings of user-centric identity: CardSpace is Microsoft's instantiation of the InfoCards Meta-system that Kim Cameron proposed several years ago; OpenID is a URL-centric identity protocol that has grown up [...]

]]> [Ed. The OpenID protocol is rapidly gaining momentum in the social networking arena. Exemplifying the momentum OpenID is gaining, Symantec recently announced that it would support OpenID in its Security 2.0 identity offering. As it is gaining visibility the OpenID protocol is being scrutinized more closely by those looking for it to handle identity usage [...]

]]> The RSA conference always serves as one of the two or three windows that the identity community uses to launch new products (the other two being Burton Group's Catalyst and our own Digital ID World conference). As such, the weeks leading up to RSA always feature a spate of new company briefings. These briefings span the [...]

]]> I first met Brian Oberkirch at the Syndicate conference in San Francisco in December of 2005. At the time, I'm quite sure that he didn't know of my connection to Digital ID World, or identity in general. But, as so often happens in this small world we call "technology", I'm running into Brian again — [...]

]]> Every now and then a technical disagreement betrays the state of a marketplace. That phenomenon is currently happening in the user-centric identity trenches.
The players are Kim Cameron (InfoCards/CardSpace) of Microsoft on one side and Dick Hardt (OpenID) of Sxip Identity on the other.  The issue: Kim's recent allegations that OpenID will make identity *less* secure [...]

]]> [Note: Eric is having trouble posting today, and I have posted this article for him. So "I" refers to Eric in this article. - Phil]
Prior to the holidays, I had begun to dig into some new briefings around NAC. Specifically, I was looking to hear from Trusted Network Technologies and Identity Engines — two startups that *began* with [...]

]]> Having graded our identity predictions from last year, its time to venture forth into the uncharted waters of 2007. The following are our divinations on what is to come:
1. Identity-related acquisitions will slow to a steady pace.
The acquisition market for identity companies has been very heated for the past two years. Several factors (economic cycle, [...]

]]> At the beginning of 2006, we posted a list of predictions over on Digital ID World for the upcoming year in identity. In keeping with our historical tradition, I'd like to grade our past performance prior to looking toward the future.
Accordingly, I'll grade our predictions on a scale of 1-5 (where 1 is worst and [...]

]]> [Ed. We have recently seen a rise in interest in several new identity technologies. These technologies arise from a different set of missions than traditional enterprise focused, domain-centric identity management systems. This article, written by Netmesh's Johannes Ernst and VeriSign's David Recordon explores the "why" of one of these technologies - OpenID.]
Many digital identity technologies [...]

]]> Back in the early mists of identity time, "identity management" was referred to as "AAA" (triple A) — authentication, access control and authorization. Over time, AAA evolved to mean authentication, authorization and acountability. Those were seen as the three large functional categories within what came to be called identity management. Eventually, as technology and understanding evolved, categories [...]

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