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Microsoft Working to Scale Blockchain for Grand Distributed ID Scheme

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday February 15 2018, @08:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the who-did-you-say-you-are? dept.

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" has found the following story:

Microsoft's wanted a really good federated identity scheme ever since the early 2000s, when it gave the world Project Hailstorm, aka ".Net My Services", to let a web of online services know a little about you and the information you are happy to share with others.

Hailstorm passed, swept back years later as Geneva Server and now seems to have found its way into a blockchain-powered conceptual heir that Microsoft's now named "Decentralized Digital Identities".

Alex Simons, director of program management in Microsoft's Identity Division has revealed that "Over the last 12 months we've invested in incubating a set of ideas for using Blockchain (and other distributed ledger technologies) to create new types of digital identities, identities designed from the ground up to enhance personal privacy, security and control."

Microsoft's identity ambitions, he wrote, now centre on user-controlled-and-owned Decentralized ID schemes so that a single data breach can't give crooks the keys to your kingdom.

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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday February 15 2018, @09:25AM (2 children)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday February 15 2018, @09:25AM (#638158) Journal

    cue the guy derailing on use of m$

    That's sexist: Not only guys can derail on the use of m$! :-)
    Anyway, the correct writing is "M$", with uppercase M <gd&r>

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Bot on Thursday February 15 2018, @09:59AM

    by Bot (3902) on Thursday February 15 2018, @09:59AM (#638163) Journal

    I thought capitals were reserved for respectable entities.

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  • (Score: 2) by chromas on Thursday February 15 2018, @10:02AM

    by chromas (34) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 15 2018, @10:02AM (#638164) Journal

    Did you just assume its case? Also, are those white capitalist imperial dollars or are you storing a string in there?