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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 6:08 PM

A RESTful CardSpace: sending tokens using the new WCF AJAX Services in Orcas

In short: this is the description of a sample that sends a CardSpace-obtained token to an AJAX service implemented with the new Orcas features. Few posts ago I published a tutorial about using CardSpace with Silver. While talking about it with Kushal
Posted by vibro | 4 Comments
Tuesday, May 29, 2007 10:19 PM

35,000 new phishing websites in just a month

The monthly report from http://www.antiphishing.org/ is always an instructive read. This April report contains some surprising numbers, as shown by the graphic below: The happy spike you notice in April07 is in fact not happy at all: it shows the efforts
Posted by vibro | 2 Comments
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:43 PM

More good news on the interoperability front

Today there was a burst of great Identity news from Microsoft: I don't know from where to start!!! :-) The Open Specification Promise (OSP) welcomes under its umbrella the Identity Selector Interoperability Profile . If you are not familiar with the OSP,
Posted by vibro | 0 Comments
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:52 AM

Passwords are bad: the story of the Linkin Park singer on Wired

Passwords are bad. It is really necessary to restate it? Wired has a very interesting story about the singer of Linkin Park (one of the most interesting bands in the last years IMHO, but that's not important here). Long story short, a hacker guessed one
Posted by vibro | 6 Comments
Sunday, May 13, 2007 11:03 PM

"Caching" cards

Caching is one of the topics that sooner or later arise when you reason about cardspace. If I use the same card across different applications at the same time, or in a short period of time, can't I cache the card? If with a certain application I reuse
Posted by vibro | 2 Comments
Monday, May 07, 2007 8:02 AM

The solution for the Silver CardSpace sample & the OperationValidation handler

In the last loooong post , the one about using CardSpace together with the new Receive activity featured by the Beta1 of the framework 3.5, I mentioned I would have attached the final solution: however I didn't do it right away, to give some incentive
Posted by vibro | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): SilverCardSpaceWorkflowService.zip
Wednesday, May 02, 2007 3:05 PM

A Silver CardSpace: securing Orcas Workflow Services with Windows CardSpace

In short: this is a step by step tutorial for creating from scratch a Workflow Service with the Beta 1 release of Visual Studio codename "Orcas". The tutorial shows how to secure the service with Windows CardSpace, how to create a client application on
Posted by vibro | 5 Comments
Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:21 AM

Don Schmidt gets an outlet

If you followed this blog in the last 4 years, chances are that you are into WS-* and especially identity related specs. Well, rejoice: Don Schmidt , the man behind ADFS, just got an outlet to the blogosphere. I may be doing a lot of hand waving on trust
Posted by vibro | 1 Comments
 
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