I was just reading Ryan Janssen’s post Becoming an RP with the Pamela Project (pt. 1) and when I got to the end where he wrote “Since it’s going to take a few hours to get my SSL cert issued and installed, I think I’ll post this and go outside for a break!” it reminded [...]

Today CA published the whitepaper “CA and Microsoft Support for User-Centric Identity and the Identity Metasystem” in which they describe their shared vision with Microsoft to build the Identity Metasystem. In particular, the whitepaper describes CA’s plans to enable SiteMinder customers to authenticate to resources protected by SiteMinder using Information Cards and to enable [...]

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 - [...]

Congratulations to Gerald Beuchelt of Sun Microsystems and the rest of the OpenSSO team for their release of Information Card support in OpenSSO. As Gerald wrote: It took quite a while, but by now it is out. Please welcome the Windows CardSpace Information Card extensions for OpenSSO: https://opensso.dev.java.net/source/browse/opensso/extensions/authnicip/ When I started working on this last spring, I [...]

The Zend Framework is an open source object-oriented web application framework for PHP used by parties large and small for building mission-critical web applications. As of release 1.5, the Zend Framework now includes support for accepting Information Cards. Read about it in Chapter 18 of the Zend Framework Programmer’s Reference Guide: Zend_InfoCard. Furthermore, the [...]

I’d like to extend congratulations to my colleagues from the Higgins Project for their Higgins 1.0 release today. This is a significant milestone in the development and deployment of interoperable identity software that lets people use their Information Cards on any platform or system. This release includes a broad range of implementations, including Identity Selectors [...]

My congratulations to ooTao and LinkSafe for enabling account creation and login at LinkSafe’s i-broker using Information Cards. Building on what I wrote earlier about I-names without Passwords at LinkSafe, Andy Dale recently wrote: Working together Microsoft, LinkSafe and ooTao have developed the first Info-Card enabled i-broker. You can register for an i-name at LinkSafe [...]

While you’ve seen posts about Information Card Relying Party code for lots of programming languages and environments here (ASP.Net, Ruby, Java, PHP, C) one language I haven’t posted about before is Python. To make up for that, here’s information about two Python implementations. Turns out that the Bandits, in their inimitable style, have been quietly [...]

Dominick Baier recently extended his Information Card relying party ASP.Net Control to be able to be used on no-SSL sites in the same way as sites employing SSL. It’s available under an MIT License, so everyone should be able to use it. At my urging, he also added a demo site where you can try [...]

The new release of the Firefox Information Card add-on recently announced by Axel Nennker is notable not only for its features, but also because it incorporates contributions by Andy Hodgkinson of the Bandit Project that make it work with the DigitalMe Identity Selector (as well as bug fixes that Andy made). This means that the same Firefox add-on code can now be used with at least three Identity Selectors – openinfocard, DigitalMe, and Windows CardSpace.