Category Archives: Identity
Forget what they taught you about authentication
If you work in e-commerce and cyber security policy, law, regulations or strategy, you’ve almost...
Simpler PKI is on the cards
PKI has a reputation for terrible complexity, but it is actually simpler than many mature...
No such thing as a passport
What do you call it when a metaphor or analogy outgrows the word it is...
Do they know what they’re getting themselves into?
What most people seem to be missing in the NSTIC discussion is the sheer novelty...
Over-engineering a No-No except in Digital Identity!
Why should digital identity be so tricky? The past decade is littered with earnest initiatives...
Its not for nothing we call them Identity Silos
Interoperability slides off the tongue as a must-have in identity systems but is it really self-evidently...
Reading Peter Steiner’s Internet dog
How are we to read Peter Steiner’s famous cartoon “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re...
Smile! You’re on Candid Apple
Apple is reported to have acquired the “Polar Rose” technology that allows photos to be tagged...
No easy fix for federated identity liability
One of the many open questions in the proposed National Strategy for Trusted Identities in...
NSTIC delayed — for the wrong reasons
Predictably, ratification by the President of the US National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace has...