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Trends in Externalizing Identity from Applications

Stackoverlow decided to use OpenID probably due to its simplicity while others believe that Information Cards (e.g. cardspace) is a better strategy in that it is backed by major industry vendors and is known to be more secure. Are there libraries…
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Designing an XACML API

Currently, the XACML specification defines a protocol for request / response but leaves it up to interpretation as to how it can be integrated into an enterprise application. I believe that the value of XACML won't be realized unless there is the…
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Problems with migrating Cardspace cards between computers

Here's the scenario. I'm using myopenid for, among other things, StackOverflow. When I initially set up my openid account with myopenid, I decided to try out Cardspace because they had support. I later wanted to access Stackoverflow from another…
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How to add CardSpace support to your ASP.NET application

I like the idea of CardSpace but unlike OpenID it seems like a real PITA to support it in your ASP.NET web application. I've found many examples, even a tutorial in one of the books I own... but it would seem a lot more is required than what they…
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Shared Authentication between SAAS/Cloud web application and Desktop application

A simple scenario: Let's say we have a Web Application up in the cloud that let users sign up using OpenID. (I'm open to use Windows Live ID as alternative) They can log in and update some meta data, for example what their favorite color is. If I…
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Modifying LDAP schema to support Cardspace and OpenID

I am seeking examples of how others have modified LDAP schemas to support Cardspace and/or OpenID. Links to LDIFs or other documentation is greatly appreciated.
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Why don't InfoCards work in IE8?

What changed in IE8 that makes detecting InfoCard Selector support in javascript stop working unless IE8 is put in Compatibility Mode? And more to the point, what is the new JavaScript code to detect the presence of InfoCard support? Here is the…
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Is there a way to use OpenID for identification (not just authentication)?

Is there a way to perform identification with OpenID, not just authentication? With OpenID i give an OpenID-enabled web-site my identifier, e.g.: And then the relying party asks the OpenID provider if i do, in fact, own the identifier…
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Replace MS Cardspace UI

Is it possible to replace Microsoft Cardspace UI with your own? Or use Cardspace without any UI?
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Any sites out there using CardSpace?

I'm interested to know if there's any sites out there that has implemented CardSpace as an alternative authentication. I certainly like to see how different it is from, say, using OpenID.
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OpenID alternative for MSN

I want to support login with an MSN account but MSN doesn't support OpenID. Wikipedia says "Windows CardSpace (codenamed InfoCard), is Microsoft's now-canceled client software for the Identity Metasystem." So what is the alternative to OpenID for…
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CardSpaceException: No version of the CardSpace service was found to be installed on the machine

first of all, I don't have clue, what am I doing. I'm a Java dev and I have to fix a C# program somebody else wrote. We had to update and move a web services to another machine. The update included a change to https. The tool I have to fix is used…
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I want to use Infocardapi.dll in Delphi/WIN32 but would like a header file for it

Microsoft has this nice little feature called CardSpace. This is a Microsoft implementation of InfoCards. Microsoft has a nice document which explains how it can be used, which is useful. And doing a Google search doesn't provide me many useful…
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CardSpace and Delphi 2007/WIN32

Very simple problem. I have a Delphi application and I want to restrict access to this by requiring users to log on using CardSpace. Basically, I need to extract the ID, name and address information from the cardspace card. The use of CardSpace is a…
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Explaining security to non-technical managers

I'm maintaining an Intranet website for my company that they want to expose to the big, bad outside World. Right now, it has no authentication or authorisation whatsoever. My idea to manage user accounts is by using existing technologies to validate…
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