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Southworks seeds open source claims transformer

With Southworks’ STS your apps can keep using WIF as the claims framework, no matter what your Identity Provider is. WS-Fed == enterprise, OpenID == consumer…

Using Consumer Identities for Business Interactions

Medtronic constructed an identity for the user containing both claims that came from the original PayPal identity and claims it added (“mashed-up”) to form a new, composite identity.

New prototype could really help OpenID

There is a sea-change here. I strongly believe the right thing to do is get behind OpenID, help promote adoption, and work with the community to make it safer and easier to use.

More news about our identity team

Over the last year great people have joined us to help Microsoft really move identity forward

Dick Hardt joins Microsoft’s Identity Team

I look forward to the impact he’ll make on the world of Software + Services

Project Geneva - Part 5

From now on, all Live IDs will also work as OpenIDs…

The Identity Metasystem and its Identity Selectors

The metasystem includes all foundational identity technologies

Clarification

Let’s avoid the word “credential”. It has so many meanings as to be confusing

Crypto flaw + bad practices = need for governance

Timely patching of one’s operating system needs to be one of the host of requirements placed on any identity provider

New York Times on OpenID and Information Cards

Passwords seem perfectly natural “because we’ve been trained to repeat them so much”