Lothar Fritsch's Blog (6)

Well... a broswer "back" butten instead of the application "back" button, and there my lengthy summary article on ICT2008 was turned into "this page is outdated". Better write your longer pieces here in a separate text editor... Continue

Paul Hodgson, BT Innovate spoke on social trust. He would have com in handy on yesterday's trust debate on the PICOS session. He stated that: * trust emerges to contain social complexity * trust cheaper than control * it requires evidence to justify trust He pointed out that virtual acts need to relate to "real meaning", implying that social trust is strongly related to identity, and thereby to the quality of electronic identifiers. With this line of thought, social trust is based on the t… Continue

The PICOS networking session on ICT2008 turned into a lengthy discussion of trust. However, from the spectator's view, discussion of trust has not advaced much lately. Audience and panel did not make a distinction between trust in systems (which the PICOS privacy designers argued for) and trust among members of a community (which the audience seemed to have in mind). With this confusion in place, the discussion spun around various of the usual suspect topics. However, towards the end of the disc… Continue

In this morning's networking session on trust in biometrics at ICT2008 in Lyon, the panelists and audience agreed upon the statement that biometrics and identity management must be married now. The detailed ideas however were very different. Global ID infrastructures were suggested as well as a stringent privacy regime. The present technology innovators admitted that their biometric technology needs to be connected to a useful IDM framework which is contained in a global framework for biometric… Continue

Dear colleagues, The ENISA Position Paper "Security Issues in the Context of Authentication Using Mobile Devices (Mobile eID)" has been published! Please have a look at the press release .... http://www.enisa.europa.eu/pages/02_01_press_2008_11_21_mobile_eid.html ... and the the position paper: http://www.enisa.europa.eu/doc/pdf/deliverables/enisa_pp_mobile_eid.pdf Yours Lothar Continue

Dear fellow FIDIS researchers, are you looking for publication opportunities? I just checked http://eventseer.net/search/?q=identity+management - and they generate 94 outputs. That's enough for the rest of the year :-) Lothar Continue