By clicking on a link or button, an identity selector interface appears and presents a list of cards that satisfy the policy of the web site.

A user visits a web site that supports InformationCard-compatible tokens.

By using an InfoCard-aware web browser (such as Firefox with the selector extension installed), a user can easily provide the required information by selecting an appropriate InfoCard from the set of cards that they own. This usually requires the exchange of identity information such as the user's given name, surname, street address, and e-mail address. In a typical use case, a user wants to complete some type of transaction with a relying party site. The selector is a set of components that enable users and applications to interact with InformationCard-compatible web sites and services. Because of the trust relationship the relying party has with the STS, it can be sure that that the assertion is true. For example, an STS can issue a token asserting that a user's age is greater than some required value without disclosing anything else about the user.

Users can interact with sites without ever disclosing their identity.

Rather than updating dozens of accounts whenever some piece of identity information changes (such as a phone number), users can update their information at one (or a small number) of IDP sites.

Users are put in control of their own identity information and can choose who they trust to store their sensitive data.

Relying party sites do not need to store sensitive identity information.

Embedded STS (for issuing tokens based on self-asserted ICards)įor the end-user, this technology provides the following benefits:.

One or more card store providers (file system, Bluetooth, etc.).

Firefox extension to launch the card selector when a relying party site requests a security token.

GTK and Cocoa Selector 1.0 consists of the following:

4.4.6.2 Compile and Package the Extension.4.4.6 Step 5 - Build the Firefox Extension.

4.4.5.3 Build Source and Binary RPMs (on SUSE and RedHat platforms).4.4.5.2 Build the Shared Libraries and GUI.4.4.2 Step 2 - Check out a copy of the source code.2.2.3 Installing on RPM-based Linux Systems.2.2.1 Obtaining the Selector and Related Components.

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