Security Flaw Shows Microsoft Passport Identities Can't Be Trusted (ZDNet) [LWN.net]

ZDNet is running a Gartner pronouncement on the security of online identity services in the light of the Passport vulnerability. "This discovery deals a major blow to Microsoft and the Liberty Alliance, which have not yet succeeded in getting the consumer e-commerce market to accept identity services of this type. Gartner surveys have shown that consumers and enterprises have already seen more risk than value in Passport and Liberty."

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Liberty Alliance?

Posted May 22, 2003 14:48 UTC (Thu) by hazelsct (guest, #3659) [Link] (1 responses)

Can someone please enlighten me as to how this Passport flaw affects Liberty Alliance?

Liberty Alliance?

Posted May 26, 2003 12:37 UTC (Mon) by mdekkers (guest, #85) [Link]

Gartner, as a good, card-carrying member of the MS PR-Club, will project issues with MS software on all other software that is available and falls within the same usage catagory. Gartner seems to lump Passport and the L.A. on the same architectural scrapheap. Anybody with half a brain knows that there are some pretty fundamental differences between the two approaches (the risks of passport being the initiating driver for the L.A. in the first place. Just another piece of Gartner PR for MS.

Cheers,

Martijn