Phil Becker has a helpful update on Palladium, the Microsoft project to provide “secure” computing. Its name has now been changed and, more important, it is going to be made a standard part of Windows over the next few years. In fact, that Microsoft has moved from the “hot” name “Palladium” to a name that can be neither pronounced nor remembered — Next-generation Secure Computing Base — indicates that Microsoft wants to lower the project’s visibility and make it sound not like an optional product but like a service that will be buried inside of its Windows brand.

[Thanks for the link, Eric.]

Eric and Andre Durand have written a white paper for PingID about federated digital ID. This is from the abstract:

While existing identity management solutions can help reduce the inefficiencies associated with managing users, roles, permissions and access to information, there are a growing number of applications that require the inter-company (federated) exchange of identity-based information (e.g. single sign-on, web services etc.). This document explores the complexity, requirements and merits associated with wide-scale deployment of identity federation, including strategies for pooling resources and the creation of standardized business frameworks for assuring quality, maintaining security, managing liability, reducing risk and resolving disputes.

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