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U.S. Real Estate Industry Adopts OpenID Connect for Web API Authentication
According to a report by Peter Williams[1], the U.S. real estate industry appears to have decided to adopt OpenID Connect for Web API authentication. I did not know this, but the r…
JWS and JWT Are Now RFCs!
It took a very long time[1], but JSON Web Signature (JWS) and JSON Web Token (JWT) have finally become Standards Track RFCs[2]. They are [RFC 7515] and [RFC 7519], respectively. Fo…
Implementations by Google, Microsoft, PayPal, Nomura Research Institute, and Others Pass OpenID Connect Conformance Tests
(Figure 1) OpenID Certified logo On the 22nd local time, the U.S.-based OpenID® Foundation announced its self-certification program for the conformance of OpenID Connect implementa…
【Amendment of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information】Obligation to Keep Records of Third-Party Provision【Part 2】
Now, regarding the obligation to keep records of third-party provision that I pointed out on 3/12[1], I subsequently learned a great deal from people at the Cabinet Secretariat…
President Obama Taps David Recordon as the White House’s “Director of Information Technology (?)”
This is somewhat old news. My colleagues and I had quite a lively discussion about it on Friday morning Japan time, but I had no time on Friday. Then I became ill and slept until j…
Has the Wheel Become Round?—The Maturity and Trends of Identity-Related Standards
The title on the ID&IT website is still provisional, but tomorrow at the ANA Hotel I will give a roughly 30-minute speech titled “Has the Wheel Become Round?—The Maturity and T…
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) Joins the OpenID Foundation as a Board Member
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) joined the OpenID Foundation in the United States…
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…
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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