Verisign PIP
Saw this on TechCrunch today and was intrigued. OK, you are effectively maintaining an identity vault but it further proves yesterday’s post that the bigger vendors are starting to get into identity metasystems, often in a variety of ways. Given they want to see these succeed commercially then maybe this will be the year when identity starts to get a little easier rather than more complex.
The down sides for Verisign’s PIP(Personal Identity Portal) is that it still seems quite US focused, you have to have an active browser session with PIP for it to work and there is a limit to which sites it will manage details for.
The up sides are that it works for most of the main commercial sites (such as Amazon, Facebook, LinkedIn), you can have two factor authentication if you so wish and it’s Verisign so they’ve got a good background in dealing with security and trust.
In sum, another useful tool in the armoury of identity for the educationalist and researcher, even if it’s not going to be somewhere to store your federation credentials or that digital certificate to get at Grid resources.
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