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JIPDEC Partners with Yahoo and 6 Other Companies to Begin Offering Banks an Email Spoofing Prevention Solution
According to a press release from the Japan Institute for Promotion of Digital Economy and Community (JIPDEC)[1], JIPDEC has begun introducing the “Trusted Email Mark” shown in the…
Government Plans to Establish a My Number Call Center by October
The government will establish a call center within the Cabinet Office around October for the “My Number System,” which manages social security benefits and tax payments using 1 per…
Government Publishes Materials on Identity Verification Measures Related to the My Number System
On the 12th, the government published materials[1] on identity verification measures related to the My Number system. These materials explain the methods of number verification and…
Trying to Untangle a Vertically Siloed Spaghetti Information Infrastructure, but…
Professor Kokuryo, whom I deeply respect, gave me this topic. It took a little time, but I have now put my thoughts together in this blog post. Let me begin with the conclusion. (1…
Thoughts on the Benesse Personal Data Breach
It appears that children’s and other personal data—up to 20.7 million records—was leaked[1] from Benesse. This is a thought-provoking incident in many respects. Let us consid…
The Last Letter: R.I.P. Bill Washburn (1946-2014)
The first Executive Director of the Commercial Internet Exchange. The 2nd Chairman of XDI.org. He was also the first Executive Director of the OpenID Foundation. He was a wonderful…
JWT and JOSE Win the Special European Identity Award 2014
(Munich, May 14) On the 14th local time (the 15th in Japan), the JWT and JOSE specifications—covering a concise JSON-based security token and cryptographically protected, Web-frien…
The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Another 1 Major Vulnerability Found in Popular Open-Source Security Software?!—CNET Gets It Completely Wrong
“Following the OpenSSL vulnerability ‘Heartbleed,’ another 1 major vulnerability has been found in popular open-source security software. This time, the vulnerability was found in…
I Gave a Keynote at Deutsche Telekom’s IdM Tech Day
3/20, I gave a keynote and took part in a panel discussion at Deutsche Telekom’s IdM Tech Day, held in Darmstadt. The entire event was moderated by Martin Kuppinger of Kuppin…
OpenID Connect Released—The Internet’s Identity Layer
After a hard-fought 4 and a half years—starting with the formation of the working group—and then 6 hard-fought years, we have finally released OpenID Connect. OpenID Connect forms…
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