Thomas Hardjono

So our new books are out and available now on Amazon.  The first one is on Fin Tech, and the second on data, privacy and identity. Frontiers of Financial Technology Trust::Data: A New Framework for Identity and Data sharing                      

This is terrific news:  a couple of students want to give all undergrads $100 worth of Bitcoin.  Here is the news in MIT’s The Tech. Some highlights: “While the specific properties of bitcoin have some real problems, getting everyone at MIT to start playing with bitcoin … will prompt the MIT community to begin thinking Read More

(NB. I love it when people get it.  Hal Hodson definitely gets it.  Many folks at the MIT-KIT conference this week got it.)   Private data gatekeeper stands between you and the NSA 03 October 2013 by Hal Hodson Magazine issue 2937. Software like openPDS acts as a bodyguard for your personal data when apps Read More

So this is getting very interesting: The world’s largest chip maker wants to see a new kind of economy bloom around personal data (article here). It looks like Intel is entering into the personal data & big data narrative. Given that Intel owns a considerable chunk of the motherboard & SoC real-estate (think Processors, discrete TPMs, Read More

MIT Media Lab – 2013 Legal Hack-a-thon on Identity Today we had the privilege of hearing a presentation by Loius Wingers and Stefan Treatman-Clark on  a couple of lightweight ciphers from the NSA.  These are called SIMON and SPECK. The algorithms are not yet published, but they have a paper (pdf copy here) that shows some Read More

After over 6 weeks of the IDESG Governance subgroup drafting the IDESG Membership and ROA related docs, these are finally completed. (1) Proposed Membership Agreement (2) Proposed Intellectual Property Rights Policy (3) IDESG Rules of Association   Key Dates and Times Ballot on the Membership Agreement & IPR Policy opened at 12:00 noon ET on Read More

Since I’m editing the User Managed Access (UMA) Core spec, I always seem to be getting questions about UMA.  Also I’ve noticed that some folks in the IETF OAuth2.0 WG have not really understood the UMA flows (not suprising, since the UMA Core Rev 5C is now over 40 pages long). So I thought a very Read More

For SAML2.0 developers, users and vendors, it is perhaps worthwhile noting that the OASIS Security Services TC (SSTC) has started the process of revising the SAML2.0 specs. Here is what the SSTC group has agreed to so far: All approved errata, along with any errata presented to the TC subsequent to the last approval, are Read More