Here there's the cover sketch for our "Understanding Windows CardSpace" book. As you may have noticed, the Independent Technology Guides series has the tradition of putting an animal on the cover. While all the books of the series have gorgeous cover...

[ EDIT: added some sketch ] In short: I briefly discuss some differences between the password based authentication model and the token based one; then I propose that we lack a proper term for describing some of the transactions enabled by cardspace and...

Keith mentions he cannot find a good end user description of CardSpace that can be used for introducing the concept to a web site visitor. Keith, we do have such a description :-) below there's a snapshot of it. You can find it in the delivery guide on...

This post is totally off topic: nothing to do with Identity, WS-*, Orcas, the cloud, technology in general or any of the usual subjects. I'm just sharing with you something I find pretty amazing :-) It's few months that I have this box on the counter...

While WS-Trust provides the primitives for playing the token issuing game, WS-Federation builds on those capabilities and enables to describe the behavior of complex scenarios. Microsoft and IBM recently published a joint whitepaper, titled Understanding...

I knew that this edition of Catalyst was going to be exciting! If you are not among the lucky crowd that is attending the event, you can catch some news from the official news in Catalyst Live . Among those news, my eye got caught by the announcement...

Yesterday night I was going through the unresolved parts of the inbox, a fairly boring task, when Dennis rescued me: he chimed in via Messenger reminding me that a new version of the BizTalk Services SDK is out. It wasn't hard to switch my attention to...

Our Chinese DPE is translating selected posts of my blog in Chinese! You can find it here . I can't even begin to tell you how honored I feel from the fact that somebody considers this feed interesting enough to go through the effort of translating it...

How many times you glance at the stickers on the window of a restaurant for understanding if your credit card is accepted there? I surely started to do it after I made fuel to my usual gas station in Milan, just for discovering minutes later the guy discontinued...

My team is on the hunt for two new evangelists: one for Visual Studio and the other for IIS7. You can find the details on this post from James, our team manager. Wihout falling in easy rethoric, I can tell you that working in this team is a phenomenal...

As the title says, I added few sketches to the post "Credentials vs. Identity; Authentication vs.... what?" . I honestly think they will help clarifying few things: kudos to who managed to read it without anyway :-) and watch out for the racoon!!!

This morning I was reading Newsweek (before you get any ideas: I subscribed to BOTH Newsweek and Time) and the interesting account they made about the history of a person. Much is being written on the subject, just browse your favourite news website for...

The idea of using Windows Workflow foundation for driving the UI behavior of an application is a very natural one: in fact, it came out endless times during last year's briefings with the enterprise early adopters and on internal discussions. There was...

As promised, here there's a Visual Studio solution for the tutorial I published last week about how to send a CardSpace token from a web page to an AJAX-style WCF service (new feature in Orcas). Enjoy!

It's that time of the year again: the end of June marks the end of the fiscal year, and for us it's time to reflect on what we've done in the past 12 months. Vast majority of the things I've done are internal-only or with high profile customers that can...

Ah joy. We finally made available to the public 2 very useful kits: one provides some goodies for juggling cardspace related operations in the browser (information card support detection, little toasters, etc), the other simplifies token handling for...

DigitalMe ! Actually, DigitalThem, where (Them==Bandit&&Higgins). Months ago they made everybody drool by demoeing it: today the guys at Bandit & Higgins projects made available for download their identity selector for SuSe linux . The usual...