Mike (one of those who need no sleep) blogged about Fun Communication's openid idtheft site and I encourage you to read Mike's post and try your personal idtheft immediately. Back here?! Well, you knew all this already, didn't you? But seeing it in action is another thing, I guess. So where does this lead us? Remember the " openid dogfight " from September 2007? I too think that we need a spectrum of solutions. I agree that openid is for when an RP has "trivial" security requirements, but I think

Microsoft Germany offers the Microsoft 360° Security Days to German speaking architects, project managers and developers. One session for architects and project managers is about Microsoft CardSpace . I really hope this will be an inspiring talk given by a true believer of the claims paradigm. It's a pity that a participant can not provide her claims by using information cards during registration for the event. Anyway, I am happy that CardSpace is a topic. We need more events that advocate information

Today I re-viewed the Craig Mundie keynote from the RSA 2008 conference. Many things were said that I liked: Recently, a few weeks ago, we announced that we had acquired Credentica, and their U-Prove technology, which we think is going to be an example of a way to realize this requirement where we can tease apart some of the individual claims around identity or elements of identity and present them individually, and therefore be able to prove certain pieces of information without disclosing too much.

Stefan and his colleagues Christian Paquin and Greg Thompson have joined the Identity and Access Group at Microsoft

Again we see that the identity metasystem spans a whole series of requirements, use cases and behaviors