Upon2020 (archive)
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Andre Durand: shorter assertion lifetimes will always prevail over longer assertion lifetime
He quotes Darren Platt (unfortunately, he does not provide a link), who apparently said: …shorter assertion lifetimes will always prevail over longer assertion lifetime values, given the infrastructure to deal with them is in place. I very much agree. Which is why LID is an “on-line” system, built around light-weight on-line queries that can be…
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Travel Tip: Don’t Eat at the Cancun Airport
We just returned from a great week of vacation south of Cancun in Mexico. Everything worked out just fine, except for the trip back home when we made the mistake of eating Guacamole at the "Taco Guacamole" (I think its name was) at the Cancun airport. My wife and I are still recovering … you…
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We might not need round-trip nonces in LID
It occurred to me that we might not have to do “round-trip nonces” at all between a Relying Party and the LID site to prevent replay attacks. The following one-directional protocol seems to be sufficient (using our patient Mr. LID Demo User and FirstSSO Inc. as an example, as always) The challenger (e.g. the LID…
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Adrian Blakey on NYT article on the future of healthcare
Adrian Blakey recently started blogging at family.blakey.org/adrian. He is one of the few people who everybody says can see things just beyond the horizon… and has done so consistently over many years. Welcome Adrian! He started out commenting, as an insider, on a recent NY Times article on the future of healthcare. Both article and…
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“Faceted” Identity and Danah Boyd
Dave Kearns recently introduced the work of Danah Boyd to the Identity Gang. I just read through her MIT master’s thesis which has an interesting, and probably sociologically quite valid view on what might constitute "identity" both off-line and on-line. It rings a lot more true to me than much discussion that’s currently going on…