Jiri’s Notepad

David Weinberger:”IDs are useful but not the center of the world.”

Nathaniel Torgington: “There are really only two outcomes that I can see: someone comes up with a killer app (and so the technology embodied in that killer app wins), or the Government mandates it [digital identity].”
In the real world, rather than having a single “digital identity” we have different identifiers for different purposes (interestingly enough […]

1st Annual PKI Research Workshop: “With respect to the question of what’s holding back physical smartcards; Sandhu observed that “it’s the readers, stupid;” he described the principal motivation of his work on virtual smartcards as to provide a “phased migration path” from weak passwords to strong PKI.”