Our Flawed World of Identity and Rights?

Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
6 min readSep 29, 2018

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Which protocol moved from Version 1.0 to Version 2, and became more complex, less interoperable, less useful, more incomplete, and less secure? That will be OAuth.

The industry has been swept along by OAuth 2 through its adoption by Google and Facebook. Other improved methods which aimed to provide fewer opportunities for spying on accesses, such as with Microsoft CardSpace, have generally…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.