Let's avoid the word "credential". It has so many meanings as to be confusing

Microsoft has released a beta of its most important developer tool to date

I found the samples very clear, and uncluttered with a lot of "sample decoration"

Kim Cameron and I recorded a podcast on digital identity for MySuccessGateway this week at the invitation of Jim Peake of SpeechRep Consulting. Jim was a gracious, informed, and enthusiastic host during our conversation, which covered a wide range of digital identity topics including identity theft, shared secrets, privacy, Information Cards and the Information [...]

Last week IDology demonstrated a first that many of us see great possibilities for: an Information Card making a verified age claim. I’m excited at this first step towards the goal of enabling people to routinely use interoperable verified claims about themselves via Information Cards. Obtaining my age-verified card online was easy. I submitted my name, address, and birth date (via a self-issued card) to IDology’s verification process. Next they asked me a few additional questions to confirm that

I recently encountered Ryan Janssen’s insightful series entitled “The History of Tomorrow’s Internet” and immediately read the whole thing in one sitting. Among other gems, I found in it the clearest explanation of the value and promise of XRI/XDI that I’ve ever read. Great stuff! The most recent installment detailed his experiences of “how [...]

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

A prototype for exchange of dynamic information

Understanding the logistics of SSL is unrelated to understanding how identity claims can be represented and exchanged...

In the simplest case, you can just look at the identity payload as an XML blob posted to a web site