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Comment on Do’s and don’t's for DigiD by Matthijs R. Koot

Matthijs R. Koot — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:09:05 +0000

Excellent post Maarten! Thank you!

Comment on Updated numbers on internet banking fraud in the Netherlands: 5 fold increase in 2010 by Internet banking fraud in the Netherlands: three time more incidents, twice the damage « Maarten Wegdam's Blog

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:49:04 +0000

[...] in the Netherlands provides numbers of internet banking fraud, I think twice a year (see also my last post on this). Yesterday the announced new numbers, together with a new awareness campaign for the public. The [...]

Comment on Edentiti wins Novay Digital Identity Award! by Matthijs R. Koot

Matthijs R. Koot — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:45:43 +0000

Ah well, laziness makes human kind create tools and automate things, and that, overall, tends to make the world a bit better / life a bit more comfortable, so to me it seems a desirable feature

More seriously though, I agree there this is a non-risk here — I’m just being an annoying wiseacre and forgot to include the emoticon to indicate that

Comment on Edentiti wins Novay Digital Identity Award! by Maarten Wegdam

Maarten Wegdam — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:29:09 +0000

Matthijs, thanks for you comments!
W.r.t. the SSL certificates: as always, you pay attention where many of us will not How my hosted blog works is that the blog is hosted by wordpress.com as maartenwegdam.wordpress.com. I pay wordpress extra to be able to use my own domain name (thus also allowing me to move elsewhere without bothering readers or confusing search engines, I hope). I did not have to buy my own SSL certificate, and also think I cannot, and WordPress.com is thus ‘exposing’ itself and its own certificates to people/browsers in some cases…. I do not think it is any significant security risk, and, as you may have quessed because I have a histed blog, I’m also lazy

Comment on Edentiti wins Novay Digital Identity Award! by Matthijs R. Koot

Matthijs R. Koot — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:09:27 +0000

( Also, I hope Maarten can get a proper SSL certificate for maarten.wegdam.name and WordPress allows him to use it. While posting my first comment I checked the “Notify me of” boxes below, received mail from WordPress, clicked the “Confirm Subcription” link to subscribe.wordpress.com, and there, post titles link to https:// versions of WordPress blogpost URLs, and for this domain, WordPress confronts me with a CN=*.wordpress.com cert)

Comment on Edentiti wins Novay Digital Identity Award! by Matthijs R. Koot

Matthijs R. Koot — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:53:25 +0000

s/Edentity/Edentiti/

Pardon that.

Comment on Edentiti wins Novay Digital Identity Award! by Matthijs R. Koot

Matthijs R. Koot — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:52:36 +0000

Congratulations to Edentiti!

I didn’t know about them (now I do) and it’s very pleasing and hopeful to see this award go to an identify verification provider that verifies identities *under the control of the end user*. Referring to the (privacy paragraph in the) Bangemann EU report: safeguarding privacy supports trust and therefore (e-)business. Allowing individual consumers/citizens/patients/etc to control aspects of disclosure of data about them lessens the (justifiable!) tendency to be suspicious/mistrusting. (That’s why I’m especially thrilled to see that Qiy was nominated too.)

Good job, Edentity! And good job, Novay, for assigning this award to them. Although there’s truth in the Dutch proverbial “goede wijn behoeft geen krans” (English: “good wine doesn’t need praise”, e.g., it sells itself), I hope this award will give Edentity some extra exposure & business.

Comment on Mobile-centric identity in the IDentity.Next newsletter by SIM augmented authentication as alternative for SIM based? « Maarten Wegdam's Blog

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:17:24 +0000

[...] perspective on the combination of mobile and digital identity, see this previous blog post on our mobile-centric identity vision. 6 [...]

Comment on Mobile PKI and mobile centric identity by SIM augmented authentication as alternative for SIM based? « Maarten Wegdam's Blog

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:17:16 +0000

[...] DigiPass Nano product to be more specific. We did this for SURFnet, for which we previously also did an assessment of Mobile PKI. We liked Mobile PKI, but it has a big disadvantage: you depend on your mobile network operator to [...]

Comment on Hacks will happen, but the damage can be less (DigiNotar) by Digital identity in the Netherlands: DigiD for consumer-2-business? « Maarten Wegdam's Blog

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:01:51 +0000

[...] parties. This is a hot subject in the Netherlands, also because of the recent security incidents (DigiNotar). Hein Aanstoot, director at SIVI, argued very well that the insurance sector increasingly needs a [...]