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Thursday, February 28, 2008 12:11 AM

MIX08: what happens in Vegas...

Next week I am going to MIX ! If you are there as well and you want to take the chance to sync up on any of the topics you read about on this blog, feel free to stop me in the hallways: I am very easy to spot! (long hair, gesticulates a lot, strong Italian
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:11 PM

Kim on our book "Understanding Windows CardSpace"

As mentioned in a post last November , Kim himself made us the huge honor of writing the foreword of our book "Understanding Windows CardSpace" . Today I had the same thrill as, while opening his blog , I've seen he dedicated an entire post to it ! You
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Monday, February 25, 2008 7:00 AM

NoSSL sample: a class for checking signatures of tokens sent to the RP in clear HTTP

[Edit: attached the sample app files] In short: I show a simple class that checks the signature of self issued tokens sent on a normal HTTP connection (as opposed to HTTPS); the same class takes care of generating a UniqueID and giving access to claims.
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Attachment(s): NoSSL.zip
Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:13 PM

The long-tailed Tasmanian mouse is out of the bag

You know, even before considering its merits (and they are many): I've always *LOVED* the sheer fact that the Higgins project exists . Higgins in the tangible proof that all this user centered identity talking truly is a movement that touches everyone.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:12 PM

The Tao of Authentication (Part I)

From time to time it's healthy to challenge the assumptions, and look at (allegedly) familiar things with new eyes. Few weeks ago I had to do just that with the idea of authentication : I wanted to shake a bit an audience of architects, and make them
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Sunday, February 17, 2008 7:24 PM

On Kindle

Progress , my friends, is a wonderful thing :-)
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Thursday, February 07, 2008 8:02 AM

Mike jumps on the OpenID Foundation board of directors

Good news everyone! Our very own Mike will represent Microsoft on the OpenID Foundation board of directors, which to me seems a natural choice given all the work he has done in that space (for example, this ). Wait a minute, a Microsoft representative
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Monday, February 04, 2008 1:01 AM

The entire chapter 2 of "Understanding Windows CardSpace" published on Code Project

Few days ago I've been notified that the 2nd chapter of our book "Understanding Windows CardSpace" is now available for free online , on the pages of Code Project (takes some time to load from my connection, don't give up). That's a very big chapter,
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Friday, February 01, 2008 9:36 AM

WCF and MySpace: a RESTful MIX session!

We just recently published a list of sessions for MIX08 . Among those, there is one that I hold especially dear: I had the luck to work with Paul, his team and the WCF team in the last months, specifically on how to leverage the web capabilities that
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