As the Gurus of User-Centric ID Management have discussed here and here, the idea of using CardSpace and special “Managed Cards”, issued through the use of the Microsoft Acrtive Directory, InfoCards could actually become sort of an authentication token not only for your self, but for you being am employee of said issuer of the respective InfoCard. As [...] READ MORE
Martin Kuppinger
Information Cards going public…
26.06.2008 09:19
Yes, I know – Information Cards (or Infocards) and their incarnation in Microsoft Windows CardSpace have been around for a while. But it was mainly the inner circle of Identity Management (and especially of user-centric Identity Management) who was really aware of this. With the recent announcement of the Information Card Foundation (ICF), Microsoft and [...] READ MORE
Felix Gaehtgens
RedHat acquires Identyx
19.06.2008 18:14
As I write this, Red Hat is announcing the acquisition of Identyx, a software company that specialises in open source identity management software. Identyx’s sells fully supported versions of Penrose, a virtual directory and Velo, an open provisioning solution. Both products are based on open source projects hosted at safehaus.org, which was started up by [...] READ MORE
Joerg Resch
Yubikey - New Hardware for Strong Authentication
07.06.2008 10:28
Recently I came across YubiKey, which is a hardware token generator from a young Swedisch comapny called Yubico. YubiKey is a small and slim USB device with just one button. If you push it, the device produces a 1-time password and sends it to the server. Compared to token generators in card format, you don´t [...] READ MORE
