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GOV.UK Wallet and One Login

GOV.UK Wallet is a digital document management app under development by the UK government, which was revealed on January 21st in the context of digital driver's licenses. Details were announced on February 5th, 2025, by Peter Kyle, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology. This announcement was part of the UK government's digitalization efforts, including the digitalization of identity documents…

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Detailed notes on passkeys and ID federation – OpenID Summit 2024

This is a summary of @ritou's presentation at OpenID Summit 2024 (January 19, 2024). Summary: This document outlines the relationship between passkeys and identity federation, their respective characteristics, mutual complementarity, and related specifications, based on Mr. Ito's presentation materials at OpenID Summit Tokyo 2024. In particular, it discusses the benefits of introducing passkeys in identity federation…

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An introduction to the differences between OAuth authentication(?) and OpenID for non-technical users [2023 edition]

It's often said that "OpenID is for authentication and OAuth is for authorization." However, I suspect many people misunderstand the meaning of these terms. The frequent statements like, "We don't need OpenID anymore; OAuth is enough," are evidence of this. OAuth authentication falls into this category. So, today, I'd like to consider the differences between OAuth and OpenID…

Events

Trustech 2018 Lecture (11/27) @ Cannes, France

I will be giving a presentation at "Trustech 2018," a large-scale event with 10,000 attendees, in Cannes, France, on November 27th at 10:35 AM. It's part of a session titled "IDENTITY AND PRIVACY: THE FULL PICTURE." Conference information can be found on the Trustech 2018 website. OpenID i…

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FAPI Part 2 passed the Implementer's Draft vote

Thanks to everyone's support, FAPI Part 2 has become an Implementer's Draft. We were worried we wouldn't reach the required quorum due to the unexpectedly large number of people on vacation, but we managed to meet it and it was officially approved as an Implementer's Draft. We extend our deepest gratitude to everyone who contributed. With this, FAPI now has both Part 1 and Part 2…

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We will be appearing at API Days Paris with a talk entitled "Financial Grade OAuth and OpenID Connect"

The "API Days 2016" conference, with its tagline "Automating IT, business, and society as a whole with APIs," will be held on December 13th and 14th at Tapis Rouge in Paris, attracting 1200 attendees. On the afternoon of the first day, I will be giving a presentation titled "OpenID Foundation Financial API WG" at the "WORKSHOP CA," and on the second day…

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US real estate industry adopts OpenID Connect for web API authentication

According to a report by Peter Williams [1], the U.S. real estate industry has decided to adopt OpenID Connect for authentication of its Web APIs. I didn't know this, but the real estate industry is the largest sector in the U.S. on a GDP basis. It accounts for 13% of GDP according to 2014 statistics from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis [2]. The second largest sector is the government sector, and…