Blogarithms
Doug Kaye's thoughts on web services, web hosting and managed services.
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Debunking SAML Myths and Misunderstandings. As Don Park wrote, "if you are confused about SAML, read Frank Cohen's article. It is understandably pro-SAML, but it is a good source of handy answers to cover your ass with."
Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2003 9:07:37 PM 
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IDE for Secure Email. Identity-based encryption is a brilliantly simple scheme for generating a public key (of a matching public/private pair) from an arbitrary string. Voltage Security has applied IBE to email. The idea is that you can envrypt email to me using my email address as the public key. This means we can skip the pain-in-the-ass steps of my sending you my public key in advance, then verifying it out-of-band using a digital fingerprint. [Source: Scott Loftesness, Glenbrook Partners.]
Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2003 6:06:49 PM
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McKinsey: The Truth About XML. "Contrary to popular perceptions, XML can actually cost more than the systems many companies already have in place, and it isn’t clear that most of them need the extra capabilities that XML offers." [McKinsey premium membership required to read much more.]
Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2003 12:45:27 AM
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Gartner's Latest Survey on Web Services. Seventy-five percent of respondents cited integration, security, personalization (portals) and Web content management as the most common goals of their Web services projects. External integration with partners, order fulfillment, and payment and billing challenges were the next most common objectives cited. [Source: WebServices.org]
Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2003 12:10:08 AM
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Loosely Coupled: Download w/PayPal. By popular demand, you can now download my latest book in PDF format and pay via PayPal. Entire book: US$14.95; major parts (4 total): US$5.95 each; individual chapters (21 total): US$1.95 each.
Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2003 12:06:19 AM
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