Today Identity and Access Management (IAM) represents a core component of the Internet infrastructure, without which users would not be able to obtain online services in a timely and scalable manner. Enterprise IAM infrastructures are well integrated into other enterprise infrastructure services — such as directory services — which provide control over employees and assets. Read More
In writing of the report of the Kantara BSC group (Blockchain and Smart Contracts) – a group that has been meeting bi-weekly for the past 7 months – we have come across numerous use-cases proposed by members who are looking closely at blockchain technology (or more generally from distributed ledger technology). To enable classification of these Read More
I often get asked to provide a brief explanation about MIT Enigma — notably what it is, and why it is important particularly in the current age of P2P networking and blockchain technology. So here’s a brief summary. The MIT Enigma system is part of a broader initiative at MIT Connections Science called the Open Algorithms for Read More
Here are the three (3) principles for privacy-preserving computation based on the Enigma P2P distributed multi-party computation model: (a) Bring the Query to the Data: The current model is for the querier to fetch copies of all the data-sets from the distributed nodes, then import the data-sets into the big data processing infra and then Read More
One important news item this week from the IoT space is the support by Atmel of Intel’s EPID technology. Enhanced Privacy ID (EPID) grew from the work of Ernie Brickell and Jiangtao Li based on previous work on Direct Anonymous Attestations (DAA). DAA is very relevant because it is built-in into the TPM1.2 chip (of which there are several hundred million Read More
So the topic of “trust” always generates a million emails on various lists. Rather than rolling-up my own definition, I thought I’d borrow a good definition from the Trusted Computing Group community (courtesy of Graeme Proudler of HP Labs, UK). It is safe to trust something when: It can be unambiguously identified. It operates Read More
