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Windows CardSpace (formerly known by the codename InfoCard), is Microsoft's client software for the Identity Metasystem. CardSpace is an instance of a class of identity client software called an Identity Selector. CardSpace stores references to users' digital identities for them, presenting them to users as visual Information Cards. CardSpace provides a consistent user experience that enables people to easily select and use these identities at sites where they are accepted. This consistent user experience conforms to the Laws of Identity and provides the foundation for a unified, secure, privacy-protecting, interoperable identity layer for the Internet. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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The Identity Metasystem is an interoperable architecture for digital identity that enables people to have and employ a collection of digital identities based on multiple underlying technologies, implementations, and providers. ...
Microsofts Windows CardSpace implementation of an Identity Selector An Identity Selector is a platform service for user-centric identity management that: Provides a consistent user experience for authentication (and in some cases other kinds of interactions) with a Relying Party (also known as a Service Provider). ...
Digital identity refers to the aspect of digital technology that is concerned with the mediation of peoples experience of their own identity and the identity of other people and things. ...
Information Cards shown in an Identity Selector Information Cards (sometimes known as âInfoCardsâ) are visual representations of personal digital identities that people can use online. ...
Overview
When a CardSpace-enabled application or Information Card aware website wishes to obtain information about the user, the application or website requests a particular set of claims from the user. CardSpace then appears, switching the display to the CardSpace service, which displays the user's stored identities as visual Information Cards. The user selects the card to use and the CardSpace software contacts the issuer of the identity to obtain a digitally signed XML token that contains the requested information. Information Cards shown in an Identity Selector Information Cards (sometimes known as âInfoCardsâ) are visual representations of personal digital identities that people can use online. ...
Information Cards shown in an Identity Selector Information Cards (sometimes known as âInfoCardsâ) are visual representations of personal digital identities that people can use online. ...
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CardSpace allows users to create personal (also known as self-issued) Information Cards for themselves, which can contain one or more of 14 fields of telephone book-quality identity information. Other transactions may require a managed identity issued by a third party identity provider that makes the claims on the person's behalf, such as a bank, employer, or a government agency. Information Cards shown in an Identity Selector Information Cards (sometimes known as âInfoCardsâ) are visual representations of personal digital identities that people can use online. ...
Windows CardSpace is built on top of the Web Services Protocol Stack, an open set of XML-based protocols, including WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-MetadataExchange and WS-SecurityPolicy. This means that any technology or platform that supports WS-* protocols can integrate with CardSpace. In order to accept Information Cards, a website developer simply needs to declare an HTML <OBJECT> tag that specifies the claims the website is demanding from the user and then implement code to decrypt the returned token and extract the claim values. If an Identity Provider wants to issue tokens, they must provide a means by which a user can obtain a managed card and provide a Security Token Service (STS) which handles WS-Trust requests and returns an appropriate encrypted & signed token. If an Identity Provider does not wish to build an STS, they will be able to obtain one from a variety of vendors including PingID, BMC, Sun, Microsoft, or Siemens, as well as other companies or organizations. The Web service protocol stack is a collection of computer networking protocols that are used to define, locate, implement, and make Web services interact with each other. ...
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. ...
WS-Security (Web Services Security) is a communications protocol providing a means for applying security to Web Services. ...
WS-Trust is a WS-* specification and OASIS standard that provides extensions to WS-Security, specifically dealing with the issuing, renewing, and validating of security tokens, as well as with ways to establish, assess the presence of, and broker trust relationships between participants in a secure message exchange. ...
One of many Web Service specifications, WS-MetadataExchange deals with the exchange of information about a Web Service. ...
WS-SecurityPolicy is a Web Services specification, created by IBM and 12 co-authors, which deals with defining policy assertions which are utilized by the WS-Security, WS-Trust and WS-SecureConversation specifications. ...
Information Cards shown in an Identity Selector Information Cards (sometimes known as âInfoCardsâ) are visual representations of personal digital identities that people can use online. ...
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WS-Trust is a WS-* specification and OASIS standard that provides extensions to WS-Security, specifically dealing with the issuing, renewing, and validating of security tokens, as well as with ways to establish, assess the presence of, and broker trust relationships between participants in a secure message exchange. ...
Because CardSpace and the Identity Metasystem upon which it is based are token-format-agnostic, CardSpace does not compete directly with other Internet identity architectures like OpenID and SAML. In some ways, these three approaches to identity can be seen as complementary. Indeed, Information Cards can be used today for signing into OpenID providers, Windows Live ID accounts, SAML identity providers, and other kinds of services. The Identity Metasystem is an interoperable architecture for digital identity that enables people to have and employ a collection of digital identities based on multiple underlying technologies, implementations, and providers. ...
OpenID is a decentralized system to verify ones online identity. ...
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an XML standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains, that is, between an identity provider (a producer of assertions) and a service provider (a consumer of assertions). ...
OpenID is a decentralized system to verify ones online identity. ...
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Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an XML standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains, that is, between an identity provider (a producer of assertions) and a service provider (a consumer of assertions). ...
In February 2006, IBM and Novell announced that they will support the Higgins trust framework to provide a development framework that includes support for Information Cards and the Web Services Protocol Stack underlying CardSpace within a broader, extensible framework also supporting other identity-related technologies, such as SAML and OpenID. For other uses, see IBM (disambiguation) and Big Blue. ...
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Higgins trust framework is a set of protocols and software applications that allow people to store their digital identities on their personal computers and share the stored information with companies and other parties in a controlled fashion. ...
Information Cards shown in an Identity Selector Information Cards (sometimes known as âInfoCardsâ) are visual representations of personal digital identities that people can use online. ...
The Web service protocol stack is a collection of computer networking protocols that are used to define, locate, implement, and make Web services interact with each other. ...
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an XML standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains, that is, between an identity provider (a producer of assertions) and a service provider (a consumer of assertions). ...
OpenID is a decentralized system to verify ones online identity. ...
Microsoft initially shipped Windows CardSpace with the .NET Framework 3.0, which runs on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista. It is installed by default on Windows Vista and is available as a free download for XP and Server 2003 via Windows Update. An updated version of CardSpace shipped with the .NET Framework 3.5. .NET Framework 3. ...
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See also Information Cards shown in an Identity Selector Information Cards (sometimes known as âInfoCardsâ) are visual representations of personal digital identities that people can use online. ...
Information Card Icon The Information Card Icon is a graphical image freely available for people to use to indicate that Information Cards are accepted where shown. ...
Microsofts Windows CardSpace implementation of an Identity Selector An Identity Selector is a platform service for user-centric identity management that: Provides a consistent user experience for authentication (and in some cases other kinds of interactions) with a Relying Party (also known as a Service Provider). ...
The Identity Metasystem is an interoperable architecture for digital identity that enables people to have and employ a collection of digital identities based on multiple underlying technologies, implementations, and providers. ...
.NET Framework 3. ...
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Digital identity refers to the aspect of digital technology that is concerned with the mediation of peoples experience of their own identity and the identity of other people and things. ...
Higgins is an open source framework that enables users and other systems to integrate identity, profile, and relationship information across multiple heterogeneous systems. ...
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Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ...
Identity Selectors for additional operating systems and browsers - Digital Me – an open source Identity Selector for Linux and Mac OS X
- A plug-in for Apple's Safari implementing an Information Card identity selector.
- A plug-in for Firefox to activate CardSpace and other identity selectors.
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Blogs - Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog – Information from Microsoft's architect for identity.
- Mike Jones' blog – Information on CardSpace, Information Cards, and the Digital Identity from Microsoft's Director of Identity Partnerships.
- Vittorio Bertocci's Weblog – Information on designing and developing with CardSpace from Microsoft's architect evangelist for Windows Server 2008.
- CardSpace team blog – Information on CardSpace from the CardSpace team itself.
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