
I got a new computer and tried the openinfocard id selector with it; but Boom the Java code did not run. Hm, I forgot to install a new version. Preinstalled was some Java 1.4 version... I installed Java 1.6 update 10 and tried again, but again it failed. Ahh, the new java plugin for Firefox hit me again.
Error calling method on NPObject! [plugin exception: java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.security.SecurityPermission getPolicy)]
I had to set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Plug-in\1.6.0_10\UseNewJavaPlugin from 1 to 0 to disable the new plugin.
After that the openinfocard selector worked again.
Sun promised to fix this in Java 1.6 update 12 but there is no early access version available...
Another bug in the new plugin is that it does not implement the instanceof operator for Java objects.
Kenneth from Sun suggested a workaround: Have to change
if (!(bootstrapClassLoader instanceof java.net.URLClassLoader)) {
to
if (!(bootstrapClassLoader.getClass().isInstance(java.lang.Class.forName("java.net.URLClassLoader")))) {
For this bug there is not even a promise to fix it... Well, thank you SUN for making my life interesting; NOT.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
java again
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Friday, November 21, 2008
Information Cards for Google Apps
Information Cards are an industry standard that enable people to maintain a set of personal digital identities.
Information Cards are like cards in your wallet. Each one defines a relationship between you -the cardholder- and the card issuer -the identity provider. They provide a way to transfer claims/attributes from the identity provider to a relyingparty. Information Card selectors are available for all major operating systems and major browsers. To learn more about Information Cards please visit the Information Card Foundation.
Having provided support for "SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) Service for Google Apps" not so long ago Google is now proud to present support for Information Cards for Google Apps.
The step from "SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) Service for Google Apps" to Information Card support is actually quite small. This is due to the fact that all Information Card selectors are token agnostic that is: They don't care which type of token is transfered from the identity provider to the relying party. Therefore we choose to use SAML assertions that are used in "SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) Service for Google Apps" too.
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an XML standard that allows secure web domains to exchange user authentication and authorization data. Using SAML, an online service provider can contact a separate online identity provider to authenticate users who are trying to access secure content.
Google Apps offers an Information Card based claims transfer that provides partner companies with full control over the authorization and authentication of hosted user accounts that can access web-based applications like Gmail or Google Calendar. Using the Information Card model, Google acts as the relying party and provides services such as Gmail and Start Pages. Google partners act as identity providers and control credentials and other information (claims/attributes) used to identify, authenticate and authorize users for web applications that Google hosts. Google wants to point out that it is hard to overestimate the security gains for our partners. By using the authentication methods implemented in e.g. Windows Cardspace partners can use Kerberos, X509 and self-issued cards to authenticate the user to the security token server; thereby leveraging existing corporate infrastructure to access Google Apps through this new services.
There are a number of existing open source and commercial identity provider solutions that can help you implement Information Cards with Google Apps.
It is important to note that the SSO solution only applies to web applications. If you want to enable your users to access Google services with desktop clients such as Outlook—for example, Outlook would provide POP access to Gmail—you will still need to provide your users with usable passwords and synchronize those passwords with your internal user database using the Provisioning API.
The Google Apps with Information Card is based the "Identity Selector Interoperability Profile V1.5". Information Cards are supported by several widely known vendors. Visit the Information Card Foundation to learn more.
Understanding Information Card based usage of Google Apps
The following process explains how a user logs into a hosted Google application through a partner-operated identity provider service.
Figure 1: Logging in to Google Apps using Information Cards

This image illustrates the following steps.
- The user attemps to reach a hosted Google application, such as Gmail, Start Pages, or another Google service.
Google presents a page with the purple-i that denotes that Information Cards can be used here. The RelayState parameter containing the encoded URL of the Google application that the user is trying to reach is transferred to the Google ACS as a form parameter. This RelayState parameter not transferred to the partner. Each google app requests at least one claim that is identitcal to the applications base url e.g. "http://calendar.parityapps.com/". - The user clicks the purple-i icon
- The cardselector starts and the user selects her information card e.g. the managed card issued by Parity. The card selectore sends the security token request to the partner
- The partner parses the request and authenticats the user using one of the supported authentication methods Kerberos, X509 certificate, self-issued card or username and password
- Partner generates SAML assertion (security token).
- The browser posts the security token and the other form element's values to the Google ACS
- Google's ACS verifies the SAML response using the partner's public key. If the response is successfully verified, ACS redirects the user to the destination URL.
- The user has been redirected to the destination URL and is logged in to Google Apps.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I hope to read an anouncement like the fake one above by Google soon ;-)
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Internet Explorer Mobile 6 Geneva? Not!

Microsoft just announced the new version of Internet Explorer Mobile 6.
The feedback on the PIE blog sounds mostly disappointed.
I guess that the new version still neither has CardSpace support.
I would welcome a mobileCardSpace even if it would have no self-issued card support.
Or maybe we should make the PKCS#5 algorithm in ISIP optional? Self-issued cards are the main reason we don't have mobile selectors.
Sad.
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No XHTML at Information Card Tile Page
Is it only me who finds it anoying that Microsoft over and over again produces example pages that have very very illegal (X)HTML code?
The example page for the Information Card Tile has yet several errors that occure when one uses a framework to create HTML pages that simply does not work well.
One should think that Microsoft's programmers have access to tools that produce valid code?! Or maybe all the Micorsoft tools and frameworks are so that they produce invalid code when you include one page into another?
Bad example. Although I like the Information Card Tile. Even though I would implement it in another way. Some time ago I came up with the same idea but did not implement it because that would have been "not standard". Well, now it seems we witness the birth of a new standard.
I would implement the Information Card Tile รก la microformats by using the class attribute. I would add a special class to the HTML-image tag to denote a tile.
If the RP does not want a tile when no selector is installed then:
Example: <image class="InformationCardTile" src="" id="the-ppid" alt="invisible"/>
If the RP does want an image when no selector is installed then:
Example: <image class="InformationCardTile" src="http://rp/image.png" id="the-ppid" alt="Purple Information Card Icon" onclick="submitForm()"/>
The selector would then overwrite the src-attribute when the card with the PPID "the-ppid" exists and add an onclick-handler that starts the selector or sends the card if the user has chosen to always use this card.
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
Equifax Unveils Online Identity Card
ATLANTA, November 13, 2008 - Equifax Inc. (NYSE: EFX) unveiled today the Equifax online identity card or I-Card, with a beta test of a first-of-its-kind digital identity management solution that is designed to make online transactions easier and more secure for both consumers and businesses....
Read the whole story at Parity's website.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
IIW2008b: XRDS for OpenID and Information Cards
We will have a session this morning about XRDS and OpenId and Information Cards.
The IIW2008b wiki has an initial page about this topic.
Please come and let us define something useful.
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Sunday, November 09, 2008
"Big Dog" Wow!
Amazing!
Visit Boston Dynamics for the full story.
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Friday, November 07, 2008
Common Browser Add-On
The current version of the openinfocard identity selector now uses the same browser add-on code as DigitalMe (revision 2525 of IdentitySelector.js).
Although there are some additional features like the status-bar icon and the XRDS support.
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Friday, October 24, 2008
XMLDAP XRDS
The XMLDAP relying party is now updated to provide XRDS data.
Notice the Information Card icon in the lower right corner in the status-bar of the browser.
You can start the card selector either through the sidebar - by dragging a card to the main window - or by clicking the Information Card icon. You need the latest version of the openinfocard id selector.
You may be wondering what the difference between the next and the previous image is?
I created a second card and used it at the xmldap relying party too.
The new claims were added to the previous set of claims. The claim "locality == Berlin" is new.
This image shows that the claim set was cleared. The relyingparty party has forgotten the privacy data after the "Clear privacy data" button was pressed.
THIS IS THE USER EXPERIENCE YOU WANT. DEATH TO USERNAME/PASSWORD.
(learn more)
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
Information Card XRDS with Information Card Icon
Please note the small Information Card icon in the status-bar in the lower-right corner of the browser window.
If no Information Cards are accepted by the site then the icon has a little red cross.
If Information Cards are accepted by the site then the Information Card icon is shown.
You can click on the icon to start the identity selector.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Information Cards with XRDS
In former posts in this blog I stated that I find the use of the HTML object element for Information Cards "not optimal". The main reason is that the object element is intended to provide a means to render media like Flash, PDF, videos, sound etc. The second reason is that Mozilla requires that object elements are handled by a plugin instead of add-ons (and plugins are platform dependant).
In other posts I described a way to use XRDS to eliminate the object element.
Now, finally, I found some time to implement this in the openinfocard information card selector and the xmldap relying party.
First, here is how this looks.
The user surfs to the relying party.
She opens the card selector in the browser's sidebar (Crtl-Shift-i).
She drags a card onto the main window and the card selector starts.
The relying party now shows the posted token.
This is really cool. No more javascript kungfu to detect the card selector.
Detecting the presence of the selector and acting appropriately is not that easy for a relying party. Now this task is simply not there. No more hiding of the missing plugin warning.
Well, there is certainly room for improvement. The openinfocard selector in the current (unpublished) version does not indicate to the user that claims are acceptable at the RP. But I can change this easily. My current favorite to indicate this is a floating Information Card Icon in some corner of the browser window but maybe a more subtle way is more appropriate. A small information card icon on the right side in the address bar or somewhere in the bar at the bottom of the Firefox window??? Or the sidebar could open automatically...
How does this work?
1) The relying party HTML contains a HTML-Link element that points to a xrds file that is retrieved by the openinfocard Firefox add-on.
<link rel="xrds.metadata" href="?xmldap_rp.xrds"/>
In this example the href is a URL relative to the current document but the href can be absolute too.
2) The openinfocard add-on retrieves the xrds.metadata document.
<XRDS xmlns="xri://$xrds">
<XRD version="2.0" xmlns="xri://$XRD*($v*2.0)">
<Type>xri://$xrds*simple</Type>
<Service>
<Type>http://infocardfoundation.org/policy/1.0/login</Type>
<URI>https://w4de3esy0069028.gdc-bln01.t-systems.com:8443/relyingparty/?login.xml</URI>
</Service>
<Service>
<Type>http://infocardfoundation.org/policy/1.0/registration</Type>
<URI>https://w4de3esy0069028.gdc-bln01.t-systems.com:8443/relyingparty/registration.xml</URI>
</Service>
<Service>
<Type>http://infocardfoundation.org/service/1.0/login</Type>
<URI>https://w4de3esy0069028.gdc-bln01.t-systems.com:8443/relyingparty/link.jsp</URI>
</Service>
<Service>
<Type>http://infocardfoundation.org/service/1.0/registration</Type>
<URI>https://w4de3esy0069028.gdc-bln01.t-systems.com:8443/relyingparty/registration</URI>
</Service>
</XRD>
</XRDS>
2) The openinfocard add-on retrieves the document for the service of type "http://infocardfoundation.org/policy/1.0/login".
This document is simply our old foe the object element:
<object type="application/x-informationcard" name="xmlToken">
<param name="privacyUrl" value="https://w4de3esy0069028.gdc-bln01.t-systems.com:8443/relyingparty/?privacy.txt"/>
<param name="requiredClaims" value="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/privatepersonalidentifier http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/givenname http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/surname http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/emailaddress"/>
<param name="optionalClaims" value="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/streetaddress http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/locality http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/stateorprovince http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/postalcode http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/country http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/homephone http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/otherphone http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/mobilephone http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/dateofbirth http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/gender"/>
<param name="privacyVersion" value="1"/>
<param name="tokenType" value="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:assertion"/>
</object>
Instead of the object I could have used a relying party issuerPolicy document but I wanted to keeps things simple.
4) When an information card is dragged onto the main browser window the login policy is parsed and the selector is called with the parameters. The add-on could even call CardSpace...
5) The security token from the card selector is posted to the service of xrds type "http://infocardfoundation.org/service/1.0/login".
6) The relying party interprets the token and returns nothing.
7) The openinfocard add-on directs the browser to the login-service URL
8) The relying party can show the the claims to the user or whatever it thinks it is appropriate with the new claims information (e.g. new payment options).
What do you think about this?
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Web 2.0 Expo Europe Next Week in Berlin
This morning I found an advertisment for next week's Web 2.0. Expo Europe in my daily newspaper.
I find it interessting that the organizers find it money well spend to have an ad in a "normal" newspaper. A quarter of the first page of the business section costs probably some money.
I will not attend the conference but will probably visit the expo. Although I would like to go to the conference too. There are some interesting talks and session. My brazen request for a blogger/press pass was rightly declined. See you at the Web 2.0 Summit in November and of course the Internet Identity Workshop 2008b.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
openinfocard for Firefox >= 3.0.2
Andrew Hodgkinson found a workaround for the latest Firefox hickups. Mozilla removed the non-standard two-parameter eval( statement, scope ) function which was used by the Firefox add-ons that implement identity selection through Information Cards. SUN's java problems that the openinfocard id selector experiences continue to bug us. With Firefox 3 the openinfocard selector is really usable only for managed cards because the java part of the selector is mainly used to issue self-issued tokens. Managed cards are handled by javascript code.
You can download the latest version of the openinfocard selector from the project's repository.
I still recommend to use Firefox 2 until SUN and Mozilla fix the java problems.
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Friday, September 26, 2008
Bugzilla@Mozilla – Bug 457068
The number of bugs in Firefox and the Firefox Java plugin that affect the openinfocard id selector increased in the last days/weeks. Not funny.
- eval(..., scope) regression
- javascript instanceof not working with Java classes
- AccessControlException for java based Firefox extensions
- javascript array constructor not working with Java classes
- window.java is sometimes defined but sometimes not
Sun says they can not fix the java plugin for java 6 update 10...
Aaargh.
Maybe it is time to build Information Card support into Firefox and other Mozilla applications directly?! This is worth a post on its own.
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Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional
"(ISC)2 launched a brand new certification program designed to validate secure software development practices and expertise and address the increasing number of application vulnerabilities."
I hope that the future CSSLP knows that software needs external authentication.
Pamela was preaching this to us at DIDW2008 and it is true.
When a company plans to buy software then we need requirements for external authentication in the request for proposal. This is a must!
And the software should understand claims because "Claims Change Everything!".
External authentication gives you more security because you can choose an established authentication software for authentication in contrast to having to rely on a home-grown authentication module by a database vendor or search engine maker.
Says Axel Nennker, CISSP, CISA, Security Preacher
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
Firefox 3.0.2 breaks ID Selector Browser Add-Ons
The current update of Firefox to version 3.0.2 breaks the Firefox ID selector browser add-ons. This does affect the openinfocard and the CardSpace4Firefox selector. I have not tried it but I assume that the other Firefox add-ons (Bandit/DigitalMe) are broken too. Thank you Mozilla (again).
I guess that eval( statement, doc ) stopped working. In the end the capturing of form-submit-events and the html-object-value-getter do not work due to this.
I am trying to fix this ASAP.
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Drag & Drop Login
On Monday I published a version of the openinfocard identity selector that allows drag & drop selection of information cards at a relyingparty.
While this is NON-standard I would like it if some relying parties would jump onto this train. And of course I hope that this or something like it will become Standard.
Some thoughts about this:
Why: It is cool. You want to drag a card onto the relyingparty.
What is the problem with the current standard? The object tag has no width and height. Although the object-element was originally intended by the W3C to handle media data like video, flash, pdf, etc this was/is not the way the object tag is intended to be used by ISIP and the ISIP Web Guide as defined by Microsoft. Here the object-element provides information about the required and optional claim, the token type etc but it does not occupy space on the web page. This means that there is nothing you can drop a card onto.
Solution: Introduce a parameter to the object-element that signifies the HTML element where a card can be dropped on. The identity selector then adds drag&drop handlers to this HTML-element and these handlers trigger the identity selector when a cardId is dropped on the HTML-element with the right icDropTargetId.
This is a 1-to-1 relationship between object-element and droptarget-element.
The drop target is inside a form that gets submitted when a cardId is dropped.
Technical detail: The thing that is dragged has the mime-type "application/x-informationcard-id". If you are a card selector outside of Firefox then all you need to do to participate in this is to create a drag-"thingy" with this mime-type. The openinfocard id selector will accept only things dropped onto the drop-target with this mime-type. Easy, isn't it?!
There is of course room for improvement. We could aggree on dragging a whole card of mime-type "application/x-informationcard" and compare the tokentype and supported claimtype before accepting the dragged card...
Compability with CardSpace: The icardie.dll does not care if there are extra parameters for the object-element. Your relyingparty works with CardSpace when this new parameters is present. There is just no drag&drop feature.
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Monday, September 22, 2008
Drop into a Site
I just uploaded a new verion of the XMLDAP RP source code and a new version of the openinfocard card selector.
You still have to compile you own version of the XMLDAP relyingparty because the current server still lacks a valid cert.
Signature validation of an newly imported card seems to fail too everytime. Sorry. Working on that (too).
Now for the new stuff. You can now display a list of your Firefox Identity Selector's cards in the browsers sidebar by pressing Ctrl-Shift-I. When you then drag a card onto the Information Card Icon the identity selector gets started and you can select a card to generate a token for the relyingparty. Cool.
It would be even cooler if the dragged card was preselected but for this I have to change the interface between browser add-on and identity selector.
The current interface for the getBrowserToken function is:
GetBrowserToken: function (
issuer , recipientURL, requiredClaims, optionalClaims , tokenType,
privacyPolicy, privacyPolicyVersion, serverCert, issuerPolicy);
I will just add the new parameter cardid to this call. And while I am at it I will introduce a new parameter sslMode. "sslMode" tells the selector whether the browser thinks that the serverCert is an extended validation certificate or not. Adding more and more parameters to the call does not seem optimal but the xpt interface in mozilla code only allows simple and some more types. I can not define structs/records etc. Theses changes to the API affect the other Firefox extension too. I have to change CardSpace for Firefox too. And maybe others will make use of this API too? (Another subproject I don't have time for: convert the DigitalMe/Bandit/Higgins-Firefox selectors into components that use this API. Or another API we might agree on in the "Browser Integration Working Group" in the Information Card Foundation.)

Drag a card onto the relyingparty's icon.

How does it work: Well, I had to make another change and add a new parameter to the HTML object of type application/x-informationcard.
<form method='post' action='./infocard' id='infocard' enctype='application/x-www-form-urlencoded'>
<img id="icDropTarget" class="droparea" src="./img/card_off.png" alt=""
onmouseover="this.src='./img/card_on.png';"
onmouseout="this.src='./img/card_off.png';"
onclick='var pf = document.getElementById("infocard"); pf.submit();'/>
<object type="application/x-informationcard" name="xmlToken">
<param name="privacyUrl" value="https://w4de3esy0069028.gdc-bln01.t-systems.com:8443/relyingparty/?privacy.txt"/>
<param name="requiredClaims" value="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/privatepersonalidentifier http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/givenname http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/surname http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/emailaddress"/>
<param name="optionalClaims" value="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/streetaddress http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/locality http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/stateorprovince http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/postalcode http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/country http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/homephone http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/otherphone http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/mobilephone http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/dateofbirth http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/gender"/>
<param name="tokenType" value="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:assertion"/>
<param name="privacyVersion" value="1"/>
<param name="icDropTargetId" value="icDropTarget"/>
</object>
</form>
The new parameter "icDropTargetId" signifies the element where information cards can be dropped onto. The img element in this example has this id. If the element is inside a form than it is submitted by the dropped information card. Simple!
Enjoy. (with Firefox 2 please)
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Microsoft PDC2008 - Identity
| Claims-Based Identity: A Security Model for Connected Applications Presenter(s): Kim Cameron, Stuart Kwan | Claims-based security is the underpinning of many applications, services, and servers. This model enables security features like: multiple authentication types, stronger authentication on-the-fly, and delegation of user identity between applications. Learn how to use this model in .NET, how it integrates with Active Directory, how it works across platforms, how it works with existing applications, and how we use it at Microsoft. Tags: Advanced, Cloud Services, Identity |
Live Platform: Identity Services Presenter: Jorgen Thelin | The Live Platform enables developers on any platform to choose the identity integration model that best enables their scenarios, including: web or client authentication, delegated authentication, or federated authentication. Learn how to build seamless, cobranded, and customized sign-up and sign-in experiences. Tags: Expert, Identity, Live Platform |
| Securing Your Service Using the Federated Identity Services Presenter: Justin Smith | Learn how identity services can quickly add authentication and authorization to a service, as well as federate with other identity systems, making it possible for a service to seamlessly use corporate credentials for access control. Tags: Advanced, Cloud Services, Identity |
| Connecting Active Directory to Microsoft Cloud Services Presenter(s): Lynn Ayres, Tore Sundelin | Learn how to augment your existing IT infrastructure with Microsoft Services. Manage and secure end user access to cloud services using your existing investment in Active Directory. Enable end users to access cloud services through existing Active Directory accounts, the same way they access your intranet-hosted software today. Hear how to enable existing software to use new service capabilities without re-writes, and do it all through the use of open and standard protocols. Tags: Advanced, Cloud Services, Identity |
| "Zermatt": Enabling Next Generation Identity | The security demands of applications continue to evolve in the face of compliance requirements, new online threats, and SOA and cloud re-engineering. See how to use the "Zermatt" next-generation authentication framework and services and the claims-based identity model to enable single sign on, strong authentication, federation, and the ability to flow user authentication between applications. Find out how to use "Zermatt" with ASP.NET, WCF, Active Directory, and Windows CardSpace. Tags: Advanced, Identity |
| "Zermatt": Deep Dive | In this session we examine the architecture of "Zermatt" next generation identity technology, and how it can be customized and extended for advanced security scenarios. At the center of the discussion is the Security Token Service (STS), a core component providing authentication and identity services. Many applications will benefit from an embedded STS, and many scenarios will call for an STS that is built on a specialized user store. Tags: Expert, Identity |
| Windows CardSpace "2": Under the Hood | Windows CardSpace provides a consistent, hardened sign-in experience that uses standard protocols and works with both thin and smart client applications. Learn about the features and architecture of the next version of Windows CardSpace. Tags: Advanced, Identity |
| Services Symposium: Enterprise Grade Cloud Applications Speaker information pending. | Today, hosted applications do not offer many of the features that large enterprises expect related to identity, management, and data. See detailed examples of "enterprise grade" hosted application design. Learn how to implement a federated identity scenario, enable remote application management, and provide richer control of data storage. Tags: Advanced, Cloud Services, Identity |
And: No connection between SharePoint and CardSpace/Identity/Zermatt?
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Intel Dude - The Burger Diet
Usually well informed sources hint that ID-TBD has more meanings than expected.
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