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

The view from Europe: for each category, three outstanding projects and innovations were nominated as finalists.

You know you’re seriously an identity geek when your spare-time reading is Understanding Windows Cardspace. But for this rapidly rising new branch of the digital identity space, a book with this much good information about Microsoft’s CardSpace technology is definitely worth the investment. About half the book is background on the entire problem space that information [...]

OpenID provides convenience and power but suffers the problem of all the Single Sign On technologies - the more it succeeds, the more dramatically phishable it will become.

After a long pause you can hear the voice of the master of the identity metasystem again here . Kim Cameron explains why the success of openid leads to the success of CardSpace information cards. Some sometimes forget that there are "alternative operating systems identity selectors". Examples are of course the openinfocard identity selector or the higgins based identity seletor digitalme .

Holiday policies to be standardized

Paul Trevithick just posted about a significant new step for the Higgins Project – the first contributions adding support for SAML 2.0. At first blush that may not seem surprising – SAML is the granddaddy of modern Internet identity protocols – but it speaks volumes precisely because Higgins established its early reputation as an alternative [...]