Kevin Miller's new Firefox plugin wraps the native Windows CardSpace identity selector, and in the process provides a great card parsing implementation. Since Kevin was kind enough to implement a plugin framework, I figured I'd take advantage and added plugin support to the xmldap selector. If you pick up the latest version of the plugin (requires Java 1.5 on your system) you will now find a new Identity Selector option in your preferences. If you have both Kevin and my extension installed, and you're

Check out this cool extension for Firefox by Kevin Miller http://www.perpetual-motion.com/ It basically wraps the native CardSpace implementation on Windows so you can use it from Firefox. Very robust looking parsing card detection, and the ability to implement an XPCOM interface to plugin other selectors: IIdentitySelector..GetBrowserToken(issuer , recipientURL, requiredClaims ,data.optionalClaims , tokenType, privacyPolicy, privacyPolicyVersion , serverCert ); The selector implementation can be

At IIW I demo'd a little proof-of-concept showing the ability to login to a CardSpace relying-party, using an OpenID based identity. For those who didn't get a chance to see it, I provided a little screen cast here:

I updated the Firefox Selector to fix a few minor bugs introduced in the Managed Cards support update. Thanks to Axel and to Antoine Galland from Gemalto for trying it out and reporting the bugs. http://xmldap.org

One more important update for the Firefox selector - With this new release, I've added a simple proof-of-concept around Managed Cards. The Firefox selector now supports importing managed cards, and retrieving tokens from an STS. It only has support for Username/Password authentication over the simple TransportBinding (this means transport security rather than message level security) Also, I've only tested against the xmldap.org STS...it may work against other implementations, but I haven't yet focused

Thanks to the hard work of Axel Nennker and his friends, I've posted an update to the Firefox Selector. The selector now has these great features: 1) Support for Firefox 2.0 - the plugin should now work on 1.5+ and 2.0 2) Internationalization Support - Axel added i18n, and has localized to: English German French Norwegian Swedish Turkish Czech Arabic and Chinese 3) There's also initial support for Logotype certificates, so that a website's icon embedded in a certificate can be displayed to the user

It sounds like Craig Burton has been having trouble with the demo Cardspace Selector I put together for Firefox. I'm not sure what trouble he's been having, but I thought I'd toss up some quick instructions, and a screen cast. Step 1) Make sure you're on Firefox 1.5 or greater. Step 2) Make sure you've got J2SE 1.4x installed on your machine. The xmldap selector doesn't use any .net or Microsoft code...its a cross platform implementation written from scratch in Java. You can hit http://java.sun.com

My good friend Ian Brown has taken the xmldap.org code and created an Identity Selector for Safari . It even integrates with the Apple Address Book for self-asserted cards. If you've got a Mac, check it out...if not, he's got a screen-cast. Nice work Ian!