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Can We Fix Federated Authentication?

It · Security · 2011-03-29 00:47 · posted by CmdrTaco · from the yeah-good-luck-with-that dept. · 65 comments

Bruce Schneier writes in his blog of a "New paper by Ross Anderson: 'Can We Fix the Security Economics of Federated Authentication?': There has been much academic discussion of federated authentication, and quite some political maneuvering about 'e-ID.' The grand vision, which has been around for years in various forms but was recently articulated in the US National Strategy for Trustworthy Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC)."