Over the next few days I will write about some of the Information Card ideas and products I saw at the Burton Group's Catalyst Conference. The Interopathon demonstrated a whole slew of identity provider, identity selector and relying party products written by all kinds of competitors and collaborators. Pretty much all the big software companies were involved, as were a some smart identity industry startups. The next day, the party continued in the Microsoft hospitality suite – and probably other suites as well.<\/p>\n
One of my favorite demonstrations was put together by Gemalto<\/a>, one of the world's largest manufacturers of smart cards, cell phone SIMS and dongles. They collaborated closely with the CardSpace team on a prototype of CardSpace in which Information Cards and the associated metadata and secret keys are all kept on a smartcard or dongle.<\/p>\n Here's the user experience:<\/p>\n You arrive at a machine, and insert your smart card. <\/p>\n CardSpace asks for a password, and when you enter it, you see your CardSpace cards as usual – except they marterialize from the smart card. The system supports both self-issued and managed cards. <\/p>\n Then, when you remove your smart card, all the CardSpace cards go away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In other words, the system completely solves the roaming and “kiosk” problem. You take your Information Cards with you, and use them wherever you go. A single smart card can transport a whole set of unrelated cards – the “Fist full of dongles” problem is solved.<\/p>\n The Gemalto folks have a demo that makes the ideas completely clear here<\/a>. Much of the work was done by Kapil <\/a>– great guy and I have my fingers crossed that he'll start blogging again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Take a look at the great ideas for CardSpace roaming shown in this little video<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,44,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}