The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) is an Obama Administration initiative aimed at establishing identity solutions and privacy-enhancing technologies that will improve the security and convenience of sensitive online transactions through the process of authenticating individuals, organizations, and underlying infrastructure – such as routers and servers.

Summarizing the key points from the NSTIC:
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I first saw this initiative at Kim Cameron’s Identity blog where he talks of Microsoft’s announcement at the RSA conference about Minimal Disclosure, End to End trust and Claims based Identity system.

The service has been implemented in Germany in partnership with Fraunhofer FOKUS – who are good friends (I have been invited to speak at FOKUS events for a few years now and I highly recommend it for some cutting edge thinking).
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