Microsoft to adopt Stefan Brands’ Technology
Stefan and his colleagues Christian Paquin and Greg Thompson have joined the Identity and Access Group at Microsoft
Stefan and his colleagues Christian Paquin and Greg Thompson have joined the Identity and Access Group at Microsoft
I was taken aback to come across a post by Stefan Brands where he transcribes and comments on the ideas I put forward in an interview that ZDNet's cool David Berlind did with me at PCForum. I met Stefan recently at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference and he impressed me as a very talented … Continue reading Stefan Brands on Dave Berlind's interview with me
Stefan Brands, who put together our holiday reading list, has his own IdCorner blog now and I really look forward to what he will be adding to the conversation. Stefan has a strong academic background (he's currently at McGill) and runs an innovative startup called Credentica.
I asked Stefan Brands, who has both an academic and practical interest in identity systems, to put together a reading list of interesting papers and books on identity-related issues that we should take a look at. And I'm sure most of us will enjoy seing what he has set out for us… I've posted it … Continue reading Stefan Brands’ Identity and Privacy Reading List
Stefan Brands has pubished a Primer on User Identification which can be downloaded here. It is a good introduction to Stefan's thinking and research – very stimulating work. I know there are people who hear about a metasystem proposal and think, “Can't we just stick with TOKEN-X and have done with it?” And I understand … Continue reading New primer from Stefan
The problem with a recent piece by Stefan Brands is that it misses the whole point about why OpenID is of interest.
There is a difference between understanding something theoretically and right in the gut.
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Today we made the U-Prove crypto specification freely available under the OSP, released open source U-Prove reference implementations in C# and Java, and delivered modules that U-Prove enable our federated identity products…
Being able to uniquely identify someone in some contexts does NOT mean we should have identification in all contexts!