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 [...]

In May 2005, when I wrote the whitepaper “Microsoft’s Vision for an Identity Metasystem”, these sentences were aspirational: Microsoft’s implementation will be fully interoperable via WS-* protocols with other identity selector implementations, with other relying party implementations, and with other identity provider implementations. Non-Microsoft applications will have the same ability to use "InfoCard" to manage their identities [...]

Sean Nolan, chief architect of Microsoft’s HealthVault service, posted an article about giving their users choice for the identities they use to access their information. He announced that in addition to accepting LiveIDs, HealthVault is about to start accepting OpenIDs from two OpenID Providers and is also building native Information Card support. As [...]

Fun Communications’ site idtheft.fun.de lets you mount your very own man-in-the-middle based phishing attack against the OpenID provider of your choosing. Rather than redirecting you to the OpenID provider you specify, it instead redirects you to a page impersonating the OpenID provider, created using content scraped from the real site behind the scenes. This is [...]

Johannes Feulner of Fun Communications recently showed me three different identity sites they’ve created, each fun and valuable in its own way. The first, www.webcard-loyalty.com , lets companies create online loyalty cards for their customers.

33 Companies… 24 Projects… 57 Participants working together to build an interoperable user-centric identity layer for the Internet! Come join us! Tuesday and Wednesday, April 8 and 9 at RSA 2008, Moscone Center, San Francisco, California Location: Mezzanine Level Room 220 Interactive Working Sessions: Tuesday and Wednesday, 11am - 4pm Demonstrations: Tuesday and Wednesday, 4pm - 6pm Reception: Wednesday, 4pm - [...]

Today the OpenID Foundation announced that five leading technology companies, Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! have joined the OpenID board of directors as its first corporate board members. This news comes a year and a day after the JanRain/Sxip Identity/Microsoft/VeriSign OpenID/CardSpace collaboration announcement introduced by Bill Gates and Craig Mundie at the RSA [...]

I was surprised during the recent blogosphere conversation on user-centric identity in the Enterprise, that no one referenced Sxip’s contemporaneous intelligently-written 2-page piece on how the use of Information Cards can help protect enterprise login credentials from being phished. Using Information Cards to enable safer remote access to hosted enterprise applications makes business sense. [...]

I’m pleased to report that ooTao and LinkSafe have recently collaborated to enable you to create and use i-names using Information Cards rather than passwords. They’ve achieved for LinkSafe.name what JanRain did for MyOpenID.com .

As Vittorio excitedly pointed out , you never have to enter a password to create or use an OpenID at MyOpenID.com . Kim’s excited about this too. So am I.