{"id":36,"date":"2007-10-18T01:44:57","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T08:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=36"},"modified":"2007-10-18T03:02:14","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T10:02:14","slug":"strong-authentication-to-healthcare-portal-through-cardspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Strong Authentication to Healthcare Portal through CardSpace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/images\/myhealth_card.bmp\" align=\"right\" alt=\"myhealth card\" \/>This week the public pilot of the healthcare portal <a href=\"https:\/\/myhealth.sg\/\">myhealth.sg<\/a> launched in Singapore, enabling individuals to manage their health, nutrition, and fitness information online.  I&#8217;m writing about this because access to the site is secured by managed Information Cards backed by hard tokens.  These USB form-factor tokens are issued in the context of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com.my\/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&#038;articleid=3846&#038;pubid=3&#038;issueid=91\">National Authentication Infrastructure<\/a> initiative of the Singapore Government.<\/p>\n<p>Like custom smart card applications, accessing the portal requires possession of both the physical token and the passphrase for the token, providing true multi-factor authentication.  But because the token is accessed via an Information Card by CardSpace, no custom application is needed on the user&#8217;s PC.  This is a concrete example of a service taking advantage of the ability to employ multi-factor authentication through Information Cards.  Read all about it in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2007\/10\/15\/windows-cardspace-silverlight-help-singapore-to-get-easier-and-safer-access-to-health-data.aspx\">Vittorio&#8217;s detailed description<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the public pilot of the healthcare portal <a href=\"https:\/\/myhealth.sg\/\">myhealth.sg<\/a> launched in Singapore, enabling individuals to manage their health, nutrition, and fitness information online.  I&#8217;m writing about this because access to the site is secured by managed Information Cards backed by hard tokens. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-cards","category-windows-cardspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}