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We believe that people should have more control over their own information. So we're creating an assistant to help you manage your online identity. A convenient place to manage your credentials (passwords, OpenIDs, and InfoCards), and a place to control how your personal data is shared with friends and organizations you trust.

Active Client

Identity Agent

  • A browser-integrated client that gives you a simple way to manage your digital identities.
  • It will help you log you in to almost any website or app using a variety of methods including I-Card, OpenID and username/password.
  • We have been developing active clients for a variety of environments (e.g. Windows, Mac. Linux, Android, iPhone) and browsers.
  • This client becomes the control panel for your personal data store.
  • That's the vision.
  • More about active clients...

Personal Data Store

Personal Data Store

  • The personal data store stores private personal information, synchronizes it to your other devices and computers, and allows you to share selected aspects of your information with people and organizations you trust.
  • The Personal Data Store Service is a secure vault in the cloud that holds personal information about you in encrypted form. Attribute data are encrypted on the client (identity agent) using a client-side key. Under your control it shares your data with organizations and individuals using a variety of protocols. It also synchronizes your data to your computers and mobile devices.
  • The Web Portal provides a Web interface to your Personal Data Store that is accessible from any browser.
  • More about the personal data store...

Identity Services

Identity Services

  • To test identity agents we created Identity Provider (IdP) services as well as code for Relying Party (RP) Websites.
  • IdPs: There are two IdPs code bases. The first is an WS-Trust-based Security Token Service (STS) IdP web service that both generates/issues information cards and implements the STS endpoint that issues security tokens of various kinds. The second is a SAML IdP that supports the SP-initiated SSO profile and issues SAML 2.0 Assertions.
  • RPs: Higgins includes Java code libraries that are used by websites to enable them to become Information Card RPs.
  • More about Higgins Identity Services...

For an overview of all of the solutions that have been developed for Higgins 1.0, see Higgins 1.0; and for a description of those under development for Higgins 1.1, see Higgins 1.1 Plan

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