It's since April that I don't write about the book (at the time we released the entire Chapter 2 on MSDN ). Last week I received notice that 2 new reviews were published: one is from the Denver Visual Studio User Group , the other is on Paul Van Brenk's blog . Both reviews are extremely nice, for which we are very grateful; I especially like the fact that in both cases the reviewers perceived our intention to deal with the problem from an holistic point of view, regardless of our affiliation with

Just back from vacation. The tan barely started to fade, and here I am already playing with the new shiny toy :-). Did you experiment with Zermatt by now? As Kim mentions the samples (and the documentation) are an excellent way to start, and I am sure that blog posts & tutorials will soon start mushrooming here and there in the blogosphere: here I begin my humble contribution with my first technical post about Zermatt . I had *absolutely* no hesitations when deciding which scenario I should tackle

We are back! I hope you had fun with the STS tutorial I posted yesterday night ; here we move a step further and examine how to equip our STS with managed card issuance logic & UI. As anticipated, this is going to be MUCH faster. If you recall, in the last post I asked you not to delete the Default.aspx page that the new web site template created for you: we are going to put our card issuance UI there. At thsi point the visual studio project should look as follows: The only new element I added

Ahh, I’ve been looking forward for this post for a looong time. We just made available for download the bits of the Beta of “Zermatt” Developer Identity Framework . “ Zermatt ” is the codename of a .NET framework that helps developers build claims-aware applications to address challenging application security requirements using a simplified application access model. Let me expand a bit on that. If you want to develop applications that take advantage of claims & identity Metasystem goodness in

A while ago two students, Xuan Chen and Christoph Löhr, from Ruhr University Bochum claimed to have "broken" CardSpace. There were some blog reactions to this claim. The authoritative one of course is from Kim . Today I browsed through a magazine lying on the desk of a colleague of mine. This magazine with the promising title "IT-Security" repeats the false claim and reports that the students proved that CardSpace has severe security flaws... Well, when you switch off all security mechanism

On the Seattle-Paris flight. I've just posted the piece about validation-authentication-authorization , and i am a bit bothered by the fact that I was unable to delve into greater details for what concerns the authoriZation part. In particular, I'd like to address one of the misunderstandings which can derive from transporting verbatim the knowledge of Kerberos & "unattended" security in general to the world of user centered identity management. Some of you claimaniacs may find the stuff below

I just uploaded a new version 1.0.11 of the Firefox extension that enables CardSpace for Firefox. This now works for the release version of Firefox 3. Although I know at least one site the drives the javascript kungfu to new heights and that does not work with this version... :-(( Have fun; and happy testing. Please report issues !

One year ago we had a brief wall-to-wall exchange with Keith about the need of having consumer (as non-developer) info about CardSpace. The Information Card Foundation is doing a great job at handling those info for the general concept of information card. Specifically for Windows CardSpace, I am happy to announce that we now have a consumer friendly home for Windows CardSpace ! I am especially fond of the two videos ( home & work ) from the UK crew; and big kudos to Eileen for the entire effort.

Flying back from S.Diego, after attending a great edition of Catalyst. I should probably write down my impressions before they fade, like it happened with the IIW, but there's in fact something (only mildly related) that bugged me for quite some time and I just want to flush it out of my system before going in vacation (somehow I feel that my old time Italian friends would not appreciate me blabbering about tokens, especially if I do it with my mouth full of focaccia al formaggio :-)). Ok, the story

YAF? (“Yet Another Foundation?”) Some in the identity community have had that reaction to the announcement of the Information Card Foundation (ICF) today at the start of the Burton Catalyst conference in San Diego. As one of two members of the ICF board who also serve on the OpenID Foundation (OIDF) board (Mike Jones is the [...]