{"id":524,"date":"2006-08-12T20:15:22","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T04:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=524"},"modified":"2006-08-12T20:23:45","modified_gmt":"2006-08-13T04:23:45","slug":"adventures-in-cardspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Cardspace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Industry guru Craig Burton's Cardspace is working now<\/a> (thank goodness).<\/p>\n

The bad news is that he's had a pretty miserable time getting it going.  Mainly, it seems in retrospect, because his computer was set up with a FAT32 file system.  If you have this configuration, no error message is displayed to you as a user – you have to read through a cryptic note in the system-wide error log.  This has to be fixed.<\/p>\n

The good news is that once he got Cardspace working, Craig really liked it.  That's really important to me:<\/p>\n

I have been trying to get CardSpace to work on my machine for several weeks. (Seems much longer.)<\/p>\n

I have downloaded tons of upgrades, deleted apps and services, and so on.<\/p>\n

Pamela Dingle<\/a> and Kim Cameron<\/a> have been very helpful in trying to help me make things work.<\/p>\n

Pamela studied the error log<\/a> –created by the CardSpace control panel–I posted and suggested that the problem was that my c: drive was using the FAT32 file system. She explained that her resources tell her that CardSpace only supports NTFS.<\/p>\n

Turns out this is true. Kim subsequently fessed up<\/a> that FAT32 isn't secure enough so they decided to set the bar at NTFS. They just didn't bother to tell anybody. (Good thinking.)<\/p>\n

I decided–against my better judgement–to convert my FAT32 file system to NTFS. I haven't done that until now because I haven't been successful in creating an NTFS compatible boot CD. If something happens to my system, I'm in trouble. I am working on resolving this. (There is a DOS-based utility that will access NTFS for recovering critical data. I don't like that prospect.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, to convert from FAT32 to NTFS you do the following. Open a command line window:<\/p>\n

start>run>cmd<\/p>\n

Run the convert utility:<\/p>\n

convert c: \/fs:ntfs<\/p>\n

Reboot, and the convert utility–assuming you have enough empty storage–will convert FAT32 to NTFS with no loss of data.<\/p>\n

I tried it. It worked. Whew! Getting this far has been no simple task.<\/p>\n

I was then able to create an Infocard with the CardSpace control panel and login  to the Idendity web log<\/a> and to the NetFX Sandbox.<\/a><\/p>\n

I also tried the Ping site<\/a> . It was slow–not sure why–but it worked. A page came up with four other sites that support Ping Federation that I can sign into with my Infocard. The sites aren't all the useful to me, Java, Verisign, Computer Associates, and another one I can't remember. That was cool.<\/p>\n

The Ping site–unlike the other two sites–gave me three options for signin:
\nTraditional (yuch) name and password, self issued Infocard or Managed Infocard. Not sure why ping distingshes between self-issued and managed Infocards as the Infocard selector lets you do that, but I will find out.<\/p>\n

Caveats.<\/p>\n

If you convert to NTFS, you cannot go back to FAT32 without repartioning and formatting your disk.<\/p>\n

I love<\/span> being able to register and login to a website with an Infocard…SWEET!<\/p>\n

I hate<\/span> how complicated it is and that it only works with BETA code. Infocard simplicity comes at a complicated uphill price. At least it isn't Msft-silo-centric. Apple, Mozilla, RedHat and others have commited to support Infocards.<\/p>\n

Things will have to get significantly easier–and supported by other browsers and OSs–before we see any kind of adoption.<\/p>\n

Despite all of that. Not having to use name-password mechanisms for secure interaction is very significant to the industry and people. This has been a long time coming and I can't emphasize its importance enough.<\/span><\/span>Thanks to all that have made it happen.  <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Many thanks to Pamela, who has become a Cardspace savante, for figuring this out – I've been in Australia and couldn't keep up with the troubleshooting.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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