IGF: CARML

2009-04-13 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
Anyone here noodling how to integrate the emerging OASIS CARML/AAPML specifications into OpenID? This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may contain proprietary, confidential and/or privileged

Would you like to learn more about OWASP?

2009-02-09 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
The Hartford chapter will be broadcasting its meeting tomorrow. There will be a discussion from Mary Ruddy of Higgins. Register here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/566470294 This communication, including attachments, is for the e

RE: OpenID Security

2009-02-09 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
-Original Message- From: Peter Watkins [mailto:pet...@tux.org] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 8:29 PM To: McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) Cc: specs@openid.net Subject: Re: OpenID Security >> What do you mean, "the" implementation? There is no "the" implementation

OpenID Security

2009-02-06 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
:48:06 -0500 From: Darren Bounds Subject: Re: OpenID Security To: "McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)" Cc: specs@openid.net Message-ID: <26563eca0902051248o446aa21br23aeb19f743ae...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I do not believe OWASP presently does any a

OpenID Security

2009-02-05 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
t: Re: OpenID Security To: "McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)" Cc: specs@openid.net Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Yeah. Fortify is nice. I do not know what would be the licensing terms now, but before, it used to have a "traveling" kind of license

OpenID Security

2009-02-04 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
OpenID certainly has security features but are all the libraries out there written to secure coding practices? Wouldn't it be great if all the library creators could have their code reviewed for security defects? Check out http://owasp.fortify.com/ *

RE: P&C Insurance Carriers

2008-12-05 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
rance customers to participate as well... From: Nat Sakimura [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 7:40 PM To: McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) Cc: specs@openid.net Subject: Re: P&C Insurance Carriers That sounds interesting. We have some member co

P&C Insurance Carriers

2008-12-04 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
I am attempting to put together a discussion amongst "employees" of P&C insurance carriers to discuss scenarios for using OpenID for independent insurance agents. Does anyone on this list know of employees at carriers that have an understanding at a technical level regarding OpenID? NOTE: I am not

Insurance Vertical Adoption

2008-12-01 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
I am interested in setting up a discussion with employees of insurance carriers on adopting OpenID and would appreciate if you know of others, that you ask them to drop me a note. I do want to avoid turning this type of activity into a vendor sales lead pipeline though... **

OWASP Certification

2008-08-15 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
Figured I would ask a somewhat offtopic question to see if anyone has thoughts. I am currently project leader for OWASP Certification Project (http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Certification_Project) which has on its roadmap, certification questions around identity. What types of thing

Using email address as OpenID identifier

2008-04-07 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
This would require defining an OpenID SRV record in DNS. Would make sense for someone to get this formally defined as part of IETF. Could kinda be done in the same way that Boeing is moving forward definition of XRI in LDAP.. -Original Message- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:56:57

OpenID and Yahoo

2008-04-02 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
Does anyone have a perspective on Yahoo and AOL and their weak support for OpenID? It is good that they are a provider, but shouldn't they really also allow access based on an OpenID issued by signon.com, myvidoop.com and others...

Web Services

2008-03-19 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
Out on the Wiki is a discussion on creating a WS-Security profile to support OpenID. Is anyone planning on taking this further? * This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may conta

OWASP Review

2008-03-10 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
Is there merit in having a third-party group such as OWASP (http://www.owasp.org) provide a third-party opinion that is public on the security of OpenID? Having large entities market OpenID will help spread the word even faster. ***

RE: OpenID 3.0

2008-02-27 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
sage- From: Paul Madsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 1:23 PM To: McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) Cc: specs@openid.net Subject: Re: OpenID 3.0 in a B2B case, would not the insurance agency be the OP, and its identity carried through the relevant assertion fields? As Mas

RE: OWASP

2008-02-26 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:14 AM To: McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) Cc: specs@openid.net Subject: Re: OWASP James, Considering that the majority of the individuals and organizations that have created the OpenID libraries do not have access to vast sums of cash to pay for these applications

OWASP

2008-02-26 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
I would be curious to know if the implementers of the various OpenID libraries have used tools such as Ounce Labs (www.ouncelabs.com), Coverity (www.coverity.com) and others to ensure that the OWASP Top Ten (www.owasp.org) doesn't occur? ***

RE: OpenID 3.0

2008-02-26 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
: NISHITANI Masaki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 1:10 AM To: McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) Cc: specs@openid.net Subject: Re: OpenID 3.0 Let me confirm a point. On #1, do you mean to enforce OpenID to control the identity-holders are permitted to access what kind of

RE: Login Federation

2008-02-18 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
party how long to leave an otherwise idle session open before timing it out. Not sure if this would require an extension or not. -Original Message- From: Brett Carter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 10:09 PM To: McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) Subject: Re: Login

Login Federation

2008-02-15 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
Wouldn't this take the user out of the middle? I would think this would be bad at some level. -- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:31:40 -0800 From: Brett Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Login Federation To: specs@openi

OpenID 3.0

2008-02-04 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
> If it turns out that some particular feature absolutely can't be done > without making a new Authentication spec release then so be it, but > ideally I think we want 2.0 to be stable for many years to come to > avoid repeating all of the current pain of incompatible versions and > the poor

RE: OpenID 3.0

2008-02-04 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
I'm not sure what there would be to say in the spec about this: SQL injection is not party of the standard, but rather a feature of some implementations :) [JFM] I agree that many of the ways that have been implemented to date are insecure and that many of the implementors would be well served by

OpenID 3.0

2008-02-01 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
Figured I would ask if anyone is interested in brainstorming the next version of OpenID and how it can be used in Enterprise B2B settings and not solely focusing on consumerish interactions. Some things that I would like to see in the next version are: 1. A discussion on how AuthZ can converge wit

Integration with Enterprise Directory Services

2008-01-25 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
Is there merit in also defining other aspects such as how the OP would store history in LDAP by defining new ObjectClass? * This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may contain prop

RE: Integration with Enterprise Directory Services

2008-01-25 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
software should work in enterprise settings while minimizing configuration regardless of how easy it is. -Original Message- From: Schleiff, Marty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 8:17 PM To: Johannes Ernst; specs@openid.net Cc: McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT); Drummond

RE: Integration with Enterprise Directory Services

2008-01-24 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
that ... perhaps a separate 1-page "standard"? On Jan 24, 2008, at 7:02, McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) wrote: > For CardSpace, MS and other providers store it in the SeeAlso > attribute. Figured OpenID in the next rev of the spec should talk more > about implementation de

RE: Integration with Enterprise Directory Services

2008-01-24 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
. =Drummond > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:47 PM > To: specs@openid.net > Subject: Integration with Enterprise Directory Services > &

Integration with Enterprise Directory Services

2008-01-23 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
What is the standard recommendation for how identifiers get stored in enterprise directory services (e.g. LDAP)? * This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may contain proprietary,

RE: XACML

2007-12-12 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
mode. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Washburn Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 1:27 PM To: McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) Cc: specs@openid.net Subject: Re: XACML Hi James-- Thanks for your note. The OpenID community, made up

XACML

2007-12-11 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
OpenID 2.0 seems to have closed major security gaps and is usable in a consumer context. Are their plans to figure out how to add functionality to the next version of OpenID to support more enterprise considerations including support for XACML, modeling of relationships, attestation, etc or is the

OpenID support for XACML

2007-10-31 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
Currently OpenID 2.0 is targeted for supporting consumer-oriented interactions. I would love to develop a sense as to when/if members of OpenID have any interest in sketching out B2B interactions where not only identity is important but also assertion of authorization information at runtime via XA

Thoughts on Vidoop

2007-10-23 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
Recently saw a demo of Vidoop and think there approach rocks. Was curious if there is an opportunity to express an authentication strength and style as an attribute to be consumed by the relying party. * This communication,

Enterprise Concerns

2007-05-29 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
Been silently observing many of the email exchanges over the last couple of weeks and from an end-customer perspective I am somewhat concerned. Some of the general themes I have observed are: 1. Too much focus on breaking compatibility with OpenID 1.1. While you have had some success, now is th

Java RP

2007-04-11 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
I have been thinking that the best contribution I could make to OpenID would be the first enterprise that deploys OpenID into production. OpenID needs more press than it is receiving and by showing that a large Fortune enterprise is using would be a big win. I do however have one constraint in t

RE: Web Access Management

2007-04-09 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
So, what will it take to move the mentioned vendors from simply being "aware" to actively participating? -Original Message- From: Dick Hardt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 2:48 PM To: McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) Cc: specs@openid.net Subject: Re:

Logout

2007-04-06 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
In thinking about this, wouldn't it be interesting if the RP could return a URL that the selector could callback on? Of course this would be optional. * This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of

RE: Logout

2007-04-06 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
st [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 2:25 PM To: McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) Cc: specs@openid.net Subject: Re: Logout That might be hard from a usability perspective, and in my experience, the underlying user requirement tends to be a variation of "I am about to go to lunc

RE: Logout

2007-04-06 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
ginal Message- From: Johannes Ernst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 12:29 PM To: McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) Cc: specs@openid.net Subject: Re: Logout So far, neither OpenID nor CardSpace define the notion of a session, so no common logout is possible within the sta

Verisign Customer Authentication Service

2007-04-06 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
VeriSign's Consumer Authentication Service authenticates customers by using real-time automation processes in combination with unique interactive question. Once consumers are properly authenticated by CAS, enterprises can be assured of their identity, and they can execute secure business transac

Logout

2007-04-06 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
Curious question that someone asked that I didn't know the answer to. OpenID/Cardspace allow for easy SSO into web sites. How does one perform the equivalent logout from an Identity Selector? * This communication, including

Web Access Management

2007-04-06 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
Are you saying that the large vendors aren't participating because OpenID forces too many things to be open? Having large companies on-board will accelerate adoption and whatever the impediments to this happening should be of higher priority than discussion around specifications. > -Origina

Web Access Management

2007-04-06 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
Are there special considerations for either relying parties when they may be protected by Web Access Management products? For example, if I initially sign onto a web site using OpenID, I still will need for the Web Access Management product to create a secure cookie that contains a session ident

RE: Web Access Management

2007-04-05 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 1:05 PM To: Dick Hardt Cc: McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT); specs@openid.net Subject: Re: Web Access Management > Ping demoed OpenID technology at RSA. > > I hear Novell and IBM are looking at supporting OpenID. > > Microsoft has said they wil

Attestation

2007-04-05 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
I believe that specifying an arbitrary time is the better way to go as it puts the work into the hands of the user. Otherwise, you would go down a rathole in that a provider otherwise may then require the ability to express a policy against it. Message: 6 Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:16:20 -0700 From

Server-to-server channel

2007-04-05 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
I would think this would be better solved by leveraging the Oracle Identity Framework and using components such as AAPML and CARML Message: 3 Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 10:57:22 + From: Vinay Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Re[3]: Server-to-server channel To: Chris Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Attestation

2007-04-05 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
The term attestation has a distinct legal meaning but within an IT context may be used interchangably with the notion of certification or periodic review. There are of course several levels of attestation. I propose that minimally OpenID incorporate the first notion where someone certifies you are

RE: Features for Future Versions

2007-04-05 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
mmond Reed; Dick Hardt; McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) Cc: specs@openid.net Subject: RE: Features for Future Versions I also agree with the feedback however I wanted to just pass along how I am using authentication and authorization on a series of applications that I am working on. I have a

RE: Promoting OpenID

2007-04-04 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
, IT) Cc: specs@openid.net Subject: Re: Promoting OpenID On 2-Apr-07, at 8:15 AM, McGovern, James F ((HTSC, IT)) wrote: > Is anyone here working with vendors in the ERP, CRM, ECM, BPM or > VRM spaces such that user-centric identity is built into their > product? We are wor

RE: Web Access Management

2007-04-04 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
IBM then I would be game to rally many of my industry peers to put some pressure... -Original Message- From: Dick Hardt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 8:21 PM To: McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) Cc: specs@openid.net Subject: Re: Web Access Management Ping demoed

RE: Promoting OpenID

2007-04-03 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
id [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 3:18 PM To: McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT); specs@openid.net Subject: RE: Promoting OpenID People might be, though nothing real formal that I personally know of. You volunteering? :P --David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: Promoting OpenID

2007-04-03 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
-Original Message- From: Gabe Wachob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 4:44 PM To: 'Recordon, David'; McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT); specs@openid.net Subject: RE: Promoting OpenID More likely that the people promoting OpenID to large organizations are vendo

Promoting OpenID

2007-04-03 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
As an end-user to user-centric approaches, I have noticed an interesting pattern. Microsoft does a wonderful job of selling Cardspace as a solution to others who develop in Microsoft languages. Likewise, there are tons of vendors that can offer solutions for large enterprises to purchase but no

Web Access Management

2007-04-02 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
Unlike blog sites and Internet startups, many large enteprises have purchased Web Access Management products such as Tivoli Access Manager, Netegrity Siteminder, etc where authentication doesn't occur by embedding code into the application. Is anyone directly working with any of the vendors in t

Features for Future Versions

2007-04-02 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
I originally joined this list with the hopes of injecting support for relationships, authorization and attestation into the specification but have been somewhat disappointed. I do have the following questions? 1. Will OpenID avoid incorporating features where identity selectors such as Cardspac

RE: HTTPS status

2007-03-01 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
May I argue that a secure end-to-end encrypted channel does not always equal SSL? I know that PKI is pervasive, but wouldn't want to rule out the potential of using identity-based encryption (IBE)... Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:23:46 -0600 From: "Alaric Dailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: HTT

RE: Federated Authorization

2007-01-25 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
correlated. -Original Message- From: Dick Hardt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 4:43 PM To: McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) Cc: specs@openid.net Subject: Re: Federated Authorization On 25-Jan-07, at 1:36 PM, McGovern, James F ((HTSC, IT)) wrote: Modify your scenario

RE: Federated Authorization

2007-01-25 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
Hopefully we can develop specifications which go deeper than just matching/correlation of identity and attribute. -Original Message- From: Dick Hardt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 7:16 PM To: McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) Cc: specs@openid.net Subject: Re: Federated

RE: Special Request: Client Certificates vs. OpenID

2007-01-23 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
MAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 3:19 PM To: McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) Cc: specs@openid.net Subject: Re: Special Request: Client Certificates vs. OpenID So I've been doing some asking around who might be interested in co-authoring some kind of white paper on the subject of user-ce

RE: Special Request: Client Certificates vs. OpenID

2007-01-22 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
/press_releases/2005/03/29/) where to look at their problem space in 2007, would they have chosen client certificates. -Original Message- From: Alaric Dailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 2:02 PM To: McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT); specs@openid.net Subject: RE: Special

Special Request: Client Certificates vs. OpenID

2007-01-22 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
Last week I sent a note to the list inquiring whether anyone on this list wanted to participate in our industry vertical standards body in hopes of ratifying OpenID as an endorsed horizontal specification. In terms of preparation, it would be greatly appreciated if Dick Hardt, Johannes Ernst and

Requirements: Attestation

2007-01-18 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
Hopefully everyone is noodling the previously sent requirements on relationship and will reply back with their own thoughts. In the meantime, I figured I would also share the requirements for attestation: * At the high level, there are two ways that attestation can work: * The iden

Industry Verticals and Standards Bodies

2007-01-18 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
The standards body for my vertical is ACORD (www.acord.org) and is where I would like to get many of my industry peers to put together standards for user-centric identity within an industry vertical context. Would be curious to know whom on this list would be interested in participating once I f

Federated Authorization

2007-01-18 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
I would love to see folks hear that also blog not only continue to discuss federated identity but also consider of the course of several additional postings also talk about the need for federated authorization. Consider an example where a Doctor in a hospital is having an electronic interaction

RE: Business Scenarios

2007-01-10 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
I am looking for any generic whitepapers targeted at any vertical that outline a business scenario (not the usual consumer-orientation) where user-centric identity has either been deployed or at least discussed. Also would love to know of situations in which user-centric identity displaced PKI b

CARML

2007-01-09 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
Oracle also has a similar specification named CARML (http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/standards/idm/igf/pdf/IGF-CARML-spec-03.pdf) which defines how applications define their attribute requirements as it relates to identity. CARML can be used to automate configuration of identity attribute

AAPML

2007-01-09 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
Curious if anyone here has read the AAPML specification from Oracle (http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/standards/idm/igf/pdf/IGF-AAPML-spec-08.pdf). The goal is to allow attribute authorities to specify conditions under which information under management may be used. This sounds like somethi

Requirements: Relationships

2007-01-05 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
Hopefully, everyone had the opportunity to read document I sent that outlines the business scenario(s) we are interested in using OpenID for. Figured I would start taking each theme and sharing requirements with the hope that others will react. The requirements for relationship are as follows:

Questions on Protocol

2007-01-02 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
Johannes invited me to lead the development of the specification for including relationships and authorization as part of OpenID. I have the following questions: 1. Would it be too distracting to have the conversation occur on this listserv or should the admin establish another one? 2. I would