selector progress

I am making good progress with the selector that supports Information Cards and OpenID (Cards). Maybe it will support username/password too.

Please notice the purple-i in the urlbar left of the site identity icon. Clicking it starts the selector which lets you login using your e.g. OpenID (Card). It "works" with the xmldap.org test page and it nearly works with Andrew Anortt's http://test-id.org/XP/Selector.aspx page. Markus Sabadello's testpage https://openidpad.com/ needs a little more work. The next step is to remember the cards used and display that/them in the urlbar.

I would like to mention that "login" or "connect" (to a site) is not enough. I think that attributes or claims are more important than login.

Sometime not too far in the future we should agree on a standard for this. I prefer the XRDS way to conway the RP's requirements to the selector and we can inline it into the HTML code if a download of the XRDS is not desirable...

New Version of "Cardspace for Firefox" addon

Well, this took quite some time.

Several people reported that there were issues with the IdentitySelector from the Codeplex repository (sometimes called Cardspace for Firefox) on Windows Vista while Windows XP worked. But now, finally, I was able to build a new version on Windows 7 using the Mozilla build system as described here. I tested it with Firefox 3.5.5 and it seems to do what is expected. Although I did not test it on Vista. Please report issues by using the Codeplex issue tracker.

Following are some screen shots from my tests:





The Cardspace version used was 3.0.0.0 as it come with Windows 7.

There is still much work to do like bringing this addon's code to the same maturity of the openinfocard selector.
And keeping it there e.g. by improving the XRDS support.

Later support the OpenID Selector...
And integrate with the work at Mozilla Labs like the "AccountManager"...
Not to forget the design work in the Kantara Universal Login Experience working group...

Dancing Elfs

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Trust in Crypto

Some people fear that an encrypted token send through an untrusted operating system is not safe. Well, decrypt this:

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EncodingType="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-soap-message-security-1.0#Base64Binary">cInCP+uDfNbevxLZEMnZG3ozidc=</wsse:KeyIdentifier></wsse:SecurityTokenReference></ds:KeyInfo><enc:CipherData><enc:CipherValue>wu7z3ml5LPdisc1F/o2gWP/I/8lgQNnj5PYoRw/CNe6f1kFtvE7Q4zZiNCrqsAJiY115ztR063siJLFiSsyGi9jRTrRuTD3ZZGrlQHedWFbG519UXk14cT6fqqQ3O8b6jXqhVDWpeRn08vKv+K6FS4wI2wKZNH3BUw169VSjz0otC8HSUz5FG8POGhVL0/kkzYmgfhq75jt84iKt2dLVNQEDHvSYraAUOc4GCuMzd0l2TgSqVQ1dJYC9NC9iTyUv0l6GPV8XApdbK/7oKW4e4aNvhhkoyLDP/U6RxLiH/QPD7EEP0vM58LETTWD+R3tViD/A5UMVlVVzF6MMsdRI0Q==</enc:CipherValue></enc:CipherData></enc:EncryptedKey></ds:KeyInfo><enc:CipherData><enc:CipherValue>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If you succeed I'll fetch you a beer at IIW2009b.

Information Card Handouts from DIDW 2009

These two are the front and back side of the handout the Information Card Foundation provided at DIDW2009.



Visit Open Identity Solutions for Open Government to learn more how Information Cards are used in Open Identity and join the discussion at the Internet Identity Workshop. Register here!

New Version Openinfocard

I just uploaded a new version of the openinfocard selector to Google code here.

I changed code that limited self-issued cards to the "well-known" claims. Now I only need to add UI-code to enable the user to specify arbitrary URLs as claim-uris.
This change forced me to change the internal cardstore format for self-issued cards. The related XML now is more similar to the RoamingStore-format for Information Cards. This is good, but existing cards stop to work. Users of the new version have to delete and recreate their self-issued cards. Sorry, although I promise that this will be not the last time ;-) for this kind of changes. I want the internal cardstore format to be exactly like the RoamingStore format (plus legal openinfocard enhancements).

Other changes: - A small change that improves statusbar Information Card icon clicks when an object tag is in the page but no XRDS. This need more work.
- The sidebar code is leaner. This needs more work too, so that only matching cards are displayed and the sidebar window gets updated when the main window changes.
- The preferences javascript code is now in a separate file. I moved it from the XUL page. This seems to make the XBL that implements the preferences page happier.

I am glad that I found some hours to work on my hobby.

Happy Birthday Kim! Elusive Privacy Reloaded

That elusive privacy

Open Trust Frameworks for Open Government

OIDF and the Information Card Foundation published a whitepaper titled "Open Trust Frameworks for Open Government".

It speaks for itself so I only add a wordle of that document.


Government accepting non-government id: A big step!

John Clippinger on i-cards and Google wave

John Clippinger, who directs the Law Lab at Harvard University and who is a co-founder of Parity Communications now Azigo, talks about Information Cards, the wallet and that this will be integrated into Google wave.

This video is from the ideas project:


My hope is that companies like Google will help to put Information Cards into the browser.

IIW 2009B Save the Date

Internet Identity Workshop 2009b, November 3-5, 2009

DroidCon and DroidCamp Berlin

Nov 3, 2009

Nov 4, 2009

Sponsored by T-Labs!!!

Auth-napping OpenId by Weave

My first feeling was that this is a bit intrusive but then...

Here is a picture of the authnapped OpenId form:

Here is a picture of the original OpenId login:

It is the user's decision to install and use Mozilla Lab's project "weave" or not. And this solves parts of the NASCAR problem. Why should the service provider suggest some OpenId providers using the NASCAR? Well, if he has a whitelist of trusted OPs then yes.
But the OpenId-NASCAR is a cludge anyway.
I think that there should be an XRD description of which authentication methods and providers and token formats and so on a service provider supports or requires. Then a client component - read Browser extension - could help the user to make a good decision and prevent phishing attacks and more.
The user does not care whether the protocol is OpenId or Information Card or if the token format is SAML2 or what not. A unique user experience is desired. Ease of use is required. User consent is required. Security and Privacy need to be protected.

This should be "in the browser"! Secure by default. Privacy protecting by default.
I guess I don't have to repeat that I prefer the Information Card metaphor and UI. A client component is a good thing and it should be ubiquious, build-in but replacable and configurable at the user's choice.

Identification, authentication and claims/attribute transfer is not the primary service provider's interest. Those tasks should be moved outside of the website's code into an authnapping module of the user's browser.

Authnapping is good!

Imaginary Schedule for Catalyst '09

If I could travel to Burton Group Catalyst Conference I would go to this talks:

speaker	title
Bob Blakley	2009: Upheaval In The Identity Market
Lori Rowland; Bob Blakley; Mark Diodati;Gerry Gebel;Ian Glazer;Kevin Kampman	Identity Management: No Time Like the Present
Michael Barrett	"Two Billionths of a Second after the Big Bang - Where Is Consumer Identity
Bob Blakley	The Identity Services Market
Bill Peer	Coming to Grips with Your Inner Cloud
Mary Ruddy; Ron Carpinella; Tom Oscherwitz; Rick Rubin; Denise Tayloe	The Age of Identity Oracles
Anne Thomas Manes	In Memory of SOA
Robert Amos	Empower the Business with Identity Management
Richard Watson	Service Modeling: Making Sure Your Services Deliver Value
Dharmesh Panchmatia	Service Orientation for Success: a Case Study

and more. Listing all interesting talks here takes too much time.
And then there is the Concordia workshop and the ICF Directors Face-to-face meeting...

I wish I could be there.

iPhone Selector @ xmldap.org

The Higgins Project, namely Markus Sabadello, created an Information Card Selector that runs on the iPhone. Due to Apple's benevolent dictatorship which prevents extensions to the iPhone's webbrowser this selector uses a custom URL-scheme to launch the selector from a web page. Details can be found here.

I adapted the xmldap relying party to output the new URL-scheme when the user-agent contains "iPhone" or "iPod".

Here are some screenshots that Markus provided:





Integrating this into the openinfocard selector is a task for this evening.

Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate is ready

Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate is ready. If you don't have the latest and greatest browser please download it here and then the openinfocard selector of course.

Google Voice Search on Android

An feature of my G1 that I somehow did not notice until yesterday is a build-in voice search. Please notice the microfone icon next to the Google input box:

If I touch that icon I can speak a search term into the G1's microfon:

The recorded sound is then send to a Google server, I guess.

And the result presented to me. The next image shows the result after I tried to search for "Deutsche Telekom"... Hm! (This is not faked by me)

Other things work better:


Has somebody implemented speaker verification for the G1? This would be soo natural to use the mobile's microfon to verify the user!

Cyberspace Policy Review

Can you find the word "identity" in the Cyberspace Policy Review wordle? (click to enlarge)


Removing "government" and appendixes:


Hm, "privacy" is a little bit better to see. "identity" still lost in the cloud.
A semantic wordle is needed it seems.

Developer Garden IP Location STS

Deutsche Telekom launched its developer program called developer garden which offers several telecom services by providing APIs.

One of these services is an IP location service that allows to resolve an IP address, if it comes from Deutsche Telekom's access network, to location information. While the retrievable location information is quite coarse it is still useful. My favorite use case is to restrict online banking to the country I live in or to the region or city I live in. This restriction would make online banking a little bit safer, although I know this is no silver bullet.
Anyway, it is a good thing that the location information is not too accurate. I don't want any server to locate me. Viewed from the privacy angle even country or region/city information might be too much already.
What I would like is user-centric location information. The Internet Service Provider should allow me - the user - to retrieve my location information to the accuracy that I accept. I can then hand this information over to the online shop, bank, news site, or whatever...

Today I have put this new IP location service and a security token server together. I wrote an iplocation_sts that offers Information Cards that contain location information. And I wrote an iplocation_rp that extracts this information from the security token. And it works! Yeah! Although I don't expect this to be the killer application which will make me rich or boost my career :-/ ... still I like it nevertheless.

How does it look?
You visit the Identity Provider with your Information Card enabled browser e.g. Firefox 3 with openinfocard. You create an account and an Information Card that you download and install into your selector.

Now you visit the relying party, click on the icon as directed...

... and choose the installed location-card. This sends the token request to the IdP's tokenservice which retrieves the remote-address of the client (or its proxy :-(), generates the SAML assertion, ...

that finally is send to the relyingparty.

Now it is clear that I live in the region "Berlin" and that the country code is "de". Correct.

Currently this is all installed only on my local machine but if Chuck installs the required libs on xmldap.org then you can play with it (if the access provider your ISP uses is Deutsche Telekom).

Deinstalling .NET Framework Assistant 1.0 for Firefox

Microsoft published an update that allows to deinstall the clickonce support for Firefox without twiddling with the registry. Good.

Before installing the patch the dotNet extension is grayed out:

After installing the patch it can now be deinstalled:

Ready:

Android 1.5 Video of Developer Garden hexbug

Yesterday I flashed the firmware of my G1 Android Developer Phone to version 1.5.

Now the G1 can capture videos and upload them to youtube:


The filmed hexbug was a present given to attendies of the Deutsche Telekom Developer Garden launch party. Nice.