Novell takes Microsoft’s InfoCard technology open source
Submitted by srlinuxx on Mon, 03/26/2007 - 13:12.
Novell is developing an open source implementation of Microsoft’s identity card technology that is functionally equivalent to the Windows software but will run on both Linux and Macintosh.
The Novell software, for which the source code is already available, provides users with a “digital wallet” that holds any number of separate identity cards that can be used to authenticate to various Web sites or network resources, such as applications or databases, or to complete transactions online.
Novell tapped into Microsoft’s InfoCard technology to develop what it is calling an InfoCard Selector, a graphical user interface that lets users select cards from their digital wallet.
DigitalWallet Passport Cardspace driver's license, credit cards?
They are all on your computer in addition to cookies and IP address? But in different directories?
The multiple relational database creates a unique identity for your computer to identify the issuers of the cards that were given to you. These issuers have specific passwords on their cards, which you have to supply on demand. They can also validate your location or presence based on sequential usage.
In the end, it is how many cards you have that gives you the security of online data transmission based on your cookies. Many cookies and the complete list in fuzzy logic can also identify you and you alone.
So, now firewalls will have digital cards to identify your computer for secured data transfer? Same as cashing your own personal check with driver's licence in the old days?
Others have invaded privacy to look at your email on your computer to identify you like eBay used to do fraud detection, maybe from Indian IT vendor such as computer associates. You have to use hotmail or passport(\windows\system\ODBE\images) firewall to protect your email records, social security numbers and creidt card numbers.