Digital identity

PingID white paper: "This whitepaper explores the nature of identity-related crimes: how they originate, how electronic networks are accelerating the problem and how existing security approaches provide at best only a partial solution. The findings of the white paper suggest that identity federation, or the connecting of existing identity systems, presents both new concerns and new opportunities. Identity Federation presents, on the one hand, the opening of a new door to accelerated cross-boundary identity-related fraud and on the other hand, the possibility for powerful new tools and approaches in dealing with and mitigating the effects of identity theft. Indeed, the very nature of identity theft seems such that identity federation may begin to lay the foundation for combating these threats."

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Daily coverage of digital-identity issues.

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IBM/Microsoft white paper: "This document describes the issues around federated identity management and describes a comprehensive solution based on the Web services specifications outlined in the WS-Security roadmap and other related Web services specifications. The approach described in this whitepaper, which will be further defined in the WSFederation specification, introduces an identity provider as a class of security token service. As such, it uses the mechanisms of WS-Trust and WS-Federation to create and broker trust within and across federations. Additionally, mechanisms are defined for single sign-in and sign-out, sharing of attributes based on authorization and privacy policies, and integrated processing of pseudonyms (aliases used at different sites/federations).

"Together, the specifications identified in this paper provide a comprehensive and integrated set of protocols for secure reliable transacted messages in and across federations by composing with other security and Web service specifications."

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Developing open standards for federated network identity systems.

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Archive of our e-mail newsletter.

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Daily links to breaking privacy news.

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"SourceID's mission is to be a premiere host of discussion, experimentation, and development of Open Digital Identity infrastructure. SourceID is host to multiple identity infrastructure related projects, mailing lists, and documentation sites (through this Wiki) in the interest of fostering creativity and development momentum within the digital identity space."

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Kuro5hin discussion, 4/13/02.

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