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Musings on Digital Identity

Month: May 2019

W3C WebAuthn and FIDO 2.0 win 2019 European Identity and Cloud Award

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On May 22, 2019

In Events, FIDO, Phishing Resistance, Specifications, W3C

EIC logoThe W3C WebAuthn and FIDO 2.0 standards have won the 2019 European Identity and Cloud Award for Best Future Technology / Standard Project at the European Identity and Cloud (EIC) conference. This award recognizes the significance of these recently-approved standards, which enable password-less sign-in with platform authenticators, mobile devices, and security keys. They provide a huge step forward for online security, privacy, and convenience.

Thanks to Kuppinger Cole for recognizing the importance and impact of these important new standards!

EIC 2019 Award EIC 2019 Award Certificate

OpenID Presentations at 2019 European Identity and Cloud (EIC) Conference

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On May 16, 2019

In Events, OpenID

OpenID logoI gave the following presentations at the May 14, 2019 OpenID Workshop at the 2019 European Identity and Cloud (EIC) conference:

This deck was also prepared but not presented, due to time limitations:

Azure Active Directory Achieves OpenID Certification

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On May 6, 2019

In Interoperability, OpenID, Software

OpenID Certified logoI’m delighted to report that Azure Active Directory (AAD) has achieved OpenID Certification. This is true both of the AAD V1 identity provider, which enables sign-in with organization identities, and the AAD V2 identity provider, which enables sign-in with both personal and organizational identities. See the certification listings and the Microsoft identity platform announcement.

While AAD has supported OpenID Connect for years, the push to achieve OpenID Certification closed a number of gaps in AAD’s feature set — mostly notably, adding support for the UserInfo Endpoint to AAD V2. This work was part of Microsoft’s commitment to utilizing widely-adopted open identity standards. Kudos to the AAD engineering team for bringing this important developer-focused work to completion!

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