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To: Hockeyfan who wrote (13674)5/26/1999 1:12:00 PM
From: David   of 26039
 
PC Magazine (June 22) looks into the future:

"[T]he public key encryption-based digital certificates that now have limited use in browsers will become commonplace. They will be usable by any program and be a feature of future smart card identity systems. More important, there will be a growing number of third-party certificate authorities--governmental agencies, communications services providers, and for-profit services vendors--acting as middlemen to vouch for your digital identity in e-commerce and other applications without requiring you to divulge personal information.

"Novell recently announced digitalme, a software architecture to let consumers create and manage their digital identities for Internet commerce. This technology is particularly interesting because it attempts to implement the approach increasingly promoted by privacy advocates--personal control of your own identifying data. You'll be able to determine exactly which personal data you share with or sell to any Web site you visit. You could even establish multiple personal identities for different activities--say, one that's specific and verifiable for e-commerce and another that's more anonymous for Web chat."

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No mention of biometric authentication in there, but it fits right into a privacy-friendly, digitalme type universe, along with PKI providers like VRSN and Entrust.
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