{"id":344,"date":"2006-02-15T03:17:17","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T11:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=344"},"modified":"2006-02-17T01:27:56","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T09:27:56","slug":"microsoft-infocard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/15\/microsoft-infocard\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft InfoCard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many people have asked me what I work on at Microsoft and it’s always been difficult for me to explain what I do because the project I’m working on hasn’t been released yet. There’s been some keynotes where my project was mentioned, but today was the first time a demo was shown during the RSA Conference 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The project I work on is currently called Microsoft InfoCard. It’s a meta-identity system which is a layer that talks between the user and the authentication system. Imagine having all a digital wallet in your computer. All your authentication in one place. You have a card to log into eBay, Amazon, amd Yahoo. For purchases, you have digital versions of your credit card to submit to vendors. That’s the user end of it. What InfoCard will do is verify the card you’re submitting. For example, if you’re submitting a VISA credit card, it’ll connect to VISA’s server, verify the card is indeed legit. VISA will then create a token, which you’ll pass onto the vendor and the vendor can verify the token was from the VISA server. I still can’t say much more about it (or more like I’m afraid of saying something that I was suppose to), but you can read about it here:<\/p>\n