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We believe that people should have more control over their own information. So we're creating a dashboard for your online identity. A convenient place to manage your credentials (passwords, OpenIDs, and InfoCards), and a place to control how your personal data is shared with friends and organizations you trust.

Higgins Selector

Selectors

  • The Higgins Selector browser-integrated active client that gives you a simple way to manage your digital identities.
  • It will help you log you in to almost any website or app using a variety of methods including I-Card, OpenID and username/password.
  • We plan to make it run on wide range of computer and mobile operating systems.
  • This client becomes the control panel for your personal data agent.
  • That's the vision.
  • More about the Higgins selector...

Personal Data Agent

Personal Data Broker

  • The data agent is comprised of the following web services:
  • The Personal Data Store is a secure vault that holds your self-asserted personal data in encrypted form. Your attribute data is encrypted on the selector client using a client-side key. Under your control it shares your data with organizations and individuals using a variety of protocols. It also synchronizes your data to all of your desktops and devices.
  • The Cloud Selector provides a portal on the Personal Data Store that is accessible from any browser.
  • More about the personal data agent...

Identity Services

Identity Services

  • To test the selector and personal data agent we created Identity Provider (IdP) services and code for a Relying Party (RP) websites.
  • IdPs: There are two IdPs code bases. The first is an WS-Trust-based Security Token Service (STS) IdP web service that both generates/issues information cards and implements the STS endpoint that issues security tokens of various kinds. The second is a SAML IdP that supports the SP-initiated SSO profile and issues SAML 2.0 Assertions.
  • RPs: Higgins includes Java code libraries that are used by websites to enable them to become Information Card RPs.
  • More about Higgins Identity Services...

For an overview of all of the solutions that have been developed for Higgins 1.0, see Higgins 1.0; and for a description of those under development for Higgins 1.1, see Higgins 1.1 Plan

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