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 Windows CardSpace empowers organizations to prevent identity theft and systematically address a broad spectrum of security and privacy challenges. Understanding Windows CardSpaceis the first insider’s guide to Windows CardSpace and the broader topic of identity management for technical and business professionals. Drawing on the authors’ unparalleled experience earned by working with the CardSpace product team and by implementing state-of-the-art CardSpace-based systems at leading enterprises, it offers unprecedented insight into the realities of identity management:
from planning and design through deployment. Part I: Setting the Context
Chapter 1, “The Problem,” explores the problems with identity management today. It explores how authentication technologies evolved into the current practices, showing the historical reasons for current widespread problems.
Chapter 2, “Hints Toward a Solution,” presents the current thinking about what the ideal authentication system would look like. The seven laws of identity are described in great depth. The Identity Metasystem is introduced, and its compliance with the identity laws is explained in detail.
Part II: The Technology
Chapter 3, “Windows CardSpace,” introduces the technology. This includes the user experience, Information Cards and the different card types, the private desktop, and the canonical usage scenario.
Chapter 4, “CardSpace Implementation,” describes the usage of CardSpace in the most common scenarios. From the HTML integration syntax to token manipulation, going though federation, integration with web services and CardSpace invocation via native APIs, this chapter covers all the basic development tasks.
Chapter 5, “Guidance for a Relying Party,” presents a detailed example of a common scenario: enabling Personal Cards on an ASP.NET website.
Part III: Practical Considerations
Chapter 6, “Identity Consumers,” presents some thoughts about deciding to be or to use an identity provider. It also looks at things from the viewpoint of being a relying party: for example, the main effects on your business and operations of accepting identities in form of tokens and from third parties, and the opportunities you want to take advantage of and the caveats you want to avoid.
Chapter 7, “Identity Providers,” lists some considerations to keep in mind when becoming an identity provider. Free Download ebook for Windows: Understanding Windows CardSpace
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