Posts tagged 'standards'

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Identity 15: Entering Security Codes

Strong security starts with big numbers, in the range of 38 digits (128 bits) for the current level, with an imminent upgrade to 77 digits (256 bits) to thwart Quantum Computers. We can make such security codes a little less dreadful to use.

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Identity 14: Bootstrapping Online Identity

Users forget passwords all the time. This leads to an email sent to an address whose password you ought to have. If not, you may cascade back into your online history, ending in your dial-in modem account with an ISP that does not exist anymore. Something is wrong here...

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Identity 13: Be Your Own IDentity Provider

If you want to Bring Your Own IDentity (BYOID) to foreign servers you will somehow need to offer an identity provider to them. How would that work?

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Identity 12: User Names in URLs

We weigh in heavily on the idea of Bring Your Own IDentity. How does this relate to URLs that we see in so many protocols? And especially the HTTP and AMQP URLs?

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