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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...

http://www.findthomas.net/blog/2016/10/25/trust-data/

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 bitco...

http://www.findthomas.net/blog/2014/05/01/mit-goes-bitcoin/

(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 ...

http://www.findthomas.net/blog/2013/10/09/new-scientist-article-about-mit-openpds/

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 perso...

http://www.findthomas.net/blog/2013/05/23/intels-foray-into-personal-data/

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...

http://www.findthomas.net/blog/2013/01/30/nsa-introduces-two-new-lightweight-ciphers-simon-and-speck/

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 Pr...

http://www.findthomas.net/blog/2012/12/06/idesg-membership-roa-and-ipr/

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 underst...

http://www.findthomas.net/blog/2012/12/05/uma-tutorial-high-level-part-1/

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 ...

http://www.findthomas.net/blog/2012/05/31/saml2-x-revising-the-saml2-0-specs/