Topic: Digital Identity

Imagine being able to send encrypted email to anyone using only their email address as a public key. No need to obtain and verify a public key in advance. PKI has failed as an email-encryption tool. Only a few of us use PGP. IBE could change all that. Founder Dan Boneh and CEO Sathvik Krishnamurthy are interviewed.

Single sign-on, federated identity, and "cross-domain security?" Microsoft's Passport and the Liberty Alliance; National digital IDs in the U.S.? the impact on IT of recent U.S. legislation such as HIPAA and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Digital IDs and spam; Reconciling privacy in the U.S. and EU.