coldcog

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by coldcog 6y ago
I understand what you are saying, and I agree that this is a risk that we will have to be very aware of. Right now we are aware of the majority of the websites/institutions that use IRMA, so we can keep track of who ask what attributes
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by coldcog 6y ago
Although developments have slowed down due to the pandemic and now the collapse of the dutch cabinet, the Privacy by Design Foundation and SIDN, who jointly develop and run IRMA, have been in talks and developing pilots with the Ministry of
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by coldcog 6y ago
Indeed the attribute-based nature of IRMA makes it more general than OpenID Connect. Users can collect all sorts of attributes in their IRMA app, and then selectively disclose any subset of those attributes, as appropriate to the use case.
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by coldcog 6y ago
In addition to this, a more technical overview of IRMA and its features can be found here: https://irma.app/docs/overview
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by coldcog 6y ago
Here [0] is a list of projects that use IRMA. Indeed there are several healthcare institutions, but there is also https://irma-meet.nl which features authenticated video calling, and there are several municipalities that are pla
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by coldcog 6y ago
Hello, IRMA lead developer here. Since then we have mainly moved from smart cards to a mobile app [0], and focused on getting the IRMA server and frontend software production-ready and developer friendly. Additionally we have worked on conn
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by coldcog 10y ago
Have just added alias ls="ls -p" to my .bashrc.
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by coldcog 10y ago
That's a good point, indeed any sequence of bytes can be interpreted as a number. But it may also encode an element of a set that has an ordering differing from that of the numbers. (For example, you could order, let's say, the se
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by coldcog 10y ago
It's important to note that either: - the things you are encrypting are not numbers, or - your scheme is not as secure as you would like it to be, where the second point means that necessarily there is some information leakage: that is