{"id":412,"date":"2009-10-05T12:04:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T20:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/?p=321"},"modified":"2009-10-05T12:04:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T20:04:02","slug":"were-saved-thanks-to-the-itu-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/were-saved-thanks-to-the-itu-not\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Saved Thanks to the ITU &#8230; Not!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ComputerWeekly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/Articles\/2009\/09\/30\/237927\/itu-identity-standards-could-end-multiple-passwords.htm\">reports<\/a> somewhat breathlessly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"ArticleBody\"><strong>Multiple passwords to access computer networks and services may soon be a thing of the past.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ArticleBody\">ITU-T X.1250 provides the ability to enhance data exchange and trust in the identities used worldwide by users, network access devices and service providers using a certificate-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pki-page.org\/\">public key infrastructure<\/a> (PKI) system. This is similar to how e-passports are verified. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I figured something was missing in identity land. I&#8217;m sure everybody&#8217;s immediately going to throw away OpenID, and information cards, and SAML, and what have you, now that the ITU has discovered PKI and solved the problem for us ;-) Clearly all of our work was always doomed to failure because we did not make it work the same way that e-passports work. (Or should I put the last &#8220;work&#8221; in quotes?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ComputerWeekly reports somewhat breathlessly: Multiple passwords to access computer networks and services may soon be a thing of the past. ITU-T X.1250 provides the ability to enhance data exchange and trust in the identities used worldwide by users, network access devices and service providers using a certificate-based public key infrastructure (PKI) system. This is similar&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital_identity","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}