The Identity Corner

On IBM “anonymous” data sharing software and snake oil

The NY Times reports on IBM’s announced release of software that enables companies to “share and compare information with other companies or government agencies without identifying the people connected to it.” Read more »

May 27, 2005 Posted by Stefan Brands | General | | 2 Comments

Scott Cantor and John C. Hardin on SAML and Liberty Alliance

An interesting dialogue on SAML and Liberty Alliance took place earlier today over at OASIS’s SAML-dev list. Read more »

May 23, 2005 Posted by Stefan Brands | General | | 2 Comments

Certificates break Kim’s Law of Directed Identity

There is a widespread mis-understanding among those working on personal identity management solutions (such as SXIP, ID Commons, mIDm, LID, and MidIdentity) that some light-weight digital certificate plumming suffices to allow for certified identity assertions in their solutions, without negatively impacting the (trivially true) privacy properties of self-generated identity assertions. Read more »

May 13, 2005 Posted by Stefan Brands | General | | 1 Comment

Kim Cameron sharpening his first law of identity?

Has Kim Cameron, Microsoft’s principal architect for digital identity, sharpened his first law of identity? Read more »

May 11, 2005 Posted by Stefan Brands | General | | 4 Comments

ZDNet interview with Kim Cameron (part 2 of 2)

As promised in my previous post on the same topic, here is the remainder of my transcription of what I consider to be the highlights of ZDNet’s audio interview with Kim Cameron, Microsoft’s principal architect for digital identity. Read more »

May 2, 2005 Posted by Stefan Brands | General | | 1 Comment