In addition to the reasons I talked about in my previous post, there are other reasons that IIW2008b was a great conference for Vidoop. One of the major reasons is that exceptional progress has been made toward enabling web-based strong authentication to work in more places in the enterprise.

Eric Sachs, Google’s Security Product Manager, is [...]

While speculations abound, it is indeed true that Chris Messina and Scott Kveton from Vidoop, along with many, many others, have been working hard over the last few months to help create the Open Web Foundation (OWF). Vidoop is excited to be so involved in an organization that is going to really help ease [...]

The founders of Vidoop launched ConfIdent Technologies LLC this week at the RSA conference. ConfIdentâ„¢ will work to serve the unique needs of the enterprise customer. ConfIdent Technologiesâ„¢ is a completely separate company and is going to license it’s RecoginitionAUTHâ„¢ technology to financial institutions, e-commerce websites, and corporations for use on VPN and [...]

Just to recap, I’ve been writing about my philosophy of authentication, which I call sustainable authentication. So far, I’ve given two rules:
1. Authentication should remain relevant and viable in spite of advances in computing power.
2. The sustainable authentication system provides acceptable levels of security regardless of any user configuration.
The third and final principle of Sustainable [...]

Back in April when we launched our company at the Web 2.0 Expo, we made the statement that we intended to share advertising revenue with OpenID enabled Relying Parties. Thanks to our many advertising partners, we are excited to announce that on January 1, 2008 we will begin paying members of the Vidoop Affiliates [...]

It’s not a huge leap to call us OpenID evangelists. Honestly we wear that badge proudly, mostly because not only are we extremely proud of what we’re putting together with Vidoop, but also because we really do see ourselves on the forefront of an important shift in how people work and play on the [...]

In our second podcast George, Luke, and Scott sit down to chew the fat on the ifs, ands, and buts of what it would take, how the interent might look, etc. if everyone had corporate grade authentication…a great prelude to many titillating discussions to come.

Last week, I began describing my philosophy as it relates to login systems, a philosophy I call Sustainable Authentication (capital letters because it’s a Philosophy.) I stated the first pillar of this philosophy: Authentication should remain relevant and viable in spite of advances in computing power.
I’d like to continue along the same lines today.
In the [...]

Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of Intel, published a famous observation in a 1964. He basically said, “It seems like the number of transistors we can put on a processor doubles about every two years.” Popularly called Moore’s Law, this observation has been generalized to say that computing power in general follows an exponentially increasing trend.
My [...]