Category: Interoperability

Hands-On Information Card Interop at IIW

On May 25, 2007

In Bandit Project, Higgins Project, Information Cards, Interoperability, Pamela Project, Shibboleth, Software, Windows CardSpace

On Tuesday afternoon at IIW representatives from numerous Information Card projects sat down at the same table (actually, 3 tables so we would all fit :-) ) and systematically used our implementations together, exercising the different possible combinations. The session notes, as posted on the OSIS wiki, tell the story:

Notes from IIW 2007a

The OSIS group sponsored an Information Card interoperability connect-a-thon on May 15, 2007 as part of the Internet Identity Workshop 2007 A in Mountain View California. Participants collaborated to work through combinations of Identity Provider, Identity Agent, and Relying Party scenarios, in order to identify and workshop problems with interoperability. The following representatives were present and participated:

5 Information Card Selectors

Ian Brown’s Safari Plugin

XMLDAP

Windows Cardspace

Higgins IdA Native

Higgins IdA Java

11 Relying Parties

Bandit (basic wiki authentcation)

Bandit (elevated privileges)

PamelaWare

CA

XMLDAP

Windows Live RP (used to obtain a managed card)

Windows Live/single-issuer (where you can use the managed card)

Oracle RP

Identityblog RP (based on Rob Richards’ library)

Identityblog helloworld token RP

UW/Shibboleth

7 Identity Providers

Higgins

Bandit

XMLDAP

UW/Shibboleth

LiveLabs

HumanPresent

Identityblog HelloWorld IdP

4 Token Types

SAML 1.0

SAML 1.1

helloworld

username token

2 Authentication Mechanisms

username/password

self-issued (personal) card

Many combinations interoperated as expected; several issues were identified and are being fixed in preparation for the coming Information Card Interop event to be held at the Burton Group Catalyst Conference in San Francisco (June 25-29).

One of the things I love about IIW is that it’s a working meeting — not a series of mind-numbing presentations. This interop was a great example of the industry coming together and doing work together. And of course, this session was a dry run for the upcoming User-Centric Identity Interop event coming at Catalyst next month, where even more projects will be represented. Hope to see many of you there!

Who are you?

By Mike Jones

On April 5, 2007

In Bandit Project, Information Cards, Interoperability, Windows CardSpace

On March 21st at Novell’s BrainShare 2007 conference, Dale Olds and I co-presented the session “Who are you? From Directories and Identity Silos to Ubiquitous User-Centric Identity”. Our presentation was a brief history of digital identity solutions, ranging from a password per application to interoperable user-centric digital identity using the Information Card metaphor and several steps in between.

demo self-issued card The coolest thing in the session was the first public demo of the Bandit/Higgins cross-platform Identity Selector. During the demo Dale and I both used the same self-issued Information Card (that I created on the BrainShare show floor :-) ) to log into a Bandit relying party site, Dale from Linux and me with Windows CardSpace. As Dale and Pat Felsted blogged, two days later the Bandits also demonstrated their selector running on the Mac. Also see Pat’s post on the Details of the Cross Platform Identity Selector.

Great progress towards enabling everyone to answer the question “Who are you?” online with the Information Card of their choice!