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My Slides for May 15 presentation at #EIC18
It was a fun day as always at #EIC18. No time right now to properly blog about it, so here are some of the tweets related to my presentation today, and the slides that I used. At the #EIC18 #OpenID Foundation workshop, @_nat_en reminds us that #OAuth is just a framework. …
Facebook, mydata, and Self Sovereign Identity
The hype and hysteria around blockchain, blockchain identity and Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal have been quite interesting to watch. It did and is still showing a lot about people’s understanding of the space, which is actually a bit different than what I think. For example, people think that they own their …
What encoding should a URI in OpenID and OAuth discovery document use for an internationalized domain name (IDN)?
So, what encoding should a URI in OpenID Connect and OAuth discovery document use for an internationalized domain name such as “müsik.example.com”? . One option is to represent it in the encoding of the discovery document. As of January 2018, it MUST be UTF-8. Another option is to represent it in …
Blockchain Use cases and Identity
I just came across with Don Tapscott’s TED Talk titled “How the blockchain is changing money and business” . In it, he talks about 5 potential use cases of blockchain technology that may result in transformations for a prosperous world. They are: Protecting rights through immutable records, e.g., land title. In many places …
Seasons Greetings through Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night)
Seasons Greetings 2017 This year, we have decided to record Adolphe Adam’s Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night) as our original greeting card. It is a simple music with very few notes, but as it gets simpler, it becomes more challenging to play as usual. We kind of struggled a …
API Days Berlin 2017 Presentation
Here is the slide I used for APIDays Berlin 2017: Banking APIs and PSD2 — The finish line for PSD2 and Open Banking. A couple of questions came around, which I did not do a really good job of answering. Here are clearer answers: Q.1 What does protecting ‘code’ and ‘state’ mean? A.1 In RFC6749, …
Attack Vectors on Modern Cars – Side Effects of Automotive Digitalization
The keynote presentation at the #EIC17 by Stephan Gerhager was an intriguing one. It amply told us that the security model around cars is really scary. I do not feel good driving a connected car after hearing it. It is a pity that neither video nor presentation is available, but here …
APIDays 2016: Financial Grade OAuth & OpenID Connect
Here is the slide I used in API Days Paris 2016, for the Banking track. Direct link to slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/nat_sakimura/financial-grade-oauth-openid-connect Hope they are useful.
Season’s greetings through Ave Verum Corpus K.618
Season’s greetings 2016 This year, we have decided to record Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus (KV.618) as our original greeting card. It is only 46 bars but is one of the most profound music that Mozart wrote in his late days. It was written for four parts choir with …