The Digital Identity Landscape

(This past was originally created in October 2015, so it may be a bit outdated).

Standardization is a unique mechanism to both ensure and enforce compatibility, interoperability, security and a similar (qualitative) user experience across different…

The Future of Authentication: Tokens

The emergence of Token Based Authentication brought the World Wide Web one step closer towards a more convenient and consistent user experience across a variety of service providers. By dynamically generating a token, a user is be able to login with a pre-defined…

Treatise on Identity: Problems of the Status Quo

Who are you?

You are a member of a nation, a community and a family. You are a son or a daughter, perhaps a father or a mother. You are a professional, the fuel for the economic combustion engine. You engage in…

A new Identity Model [with Prototype]

The Internet consists of a complex, integrated ecosystem of hierarchical layers and technologies that enable the network to function in a unique way, and allow for frictionless data transmission between two parties. Only because of this layered structure and…

Windows Cardspace: An early attempt at identity management

One of the most renown attempts to create an identity management system was Windows Cardspace. An excerpt from its whitepaper “the identity metasystem is an interoperable architecture for digital identity that assumes people will…