Windows CardSpace

The Internet continues to be increasingly valuable, and yet also faces significant challenges. Online identity theft, fraud, and privacy concerns are rising. Users must track a growing number of accounts and passwords. This burden results in "password fatigue," and that results in insecure practices, such as reusing the same account names and passwords at many sites. Many of these problems are rooted in the lack of a widely adopted identity solution for the Internet.

CardSpace is Microsoft's implementation of an Identity Metasystem that enables users to choose from a portfolio of identities that belong to them and use them in contexts where they are accepted, independent of the underlying identity systems where the identities originate and are used.

In This Section

• About Information Cards and Digital Identity
  Explains the problem of password fatigue, and how CardSpace provides a solution.

• Managing Information Cards with Windows CardSpace
  Explains the basic concepts behind CardSpace.

• Understanding Personal Information Cards
  Information about personal information cards and how to use them.

• Samples
  Samples that demonstrate how to use CardSpace.

• Windows CardSpace v1 API Reference
  Reference for the set of APIs used with CardSpace.

Reference

System.ServiceModel

Related Sections

Windows Communication Foundation Security

See Also

Other Resources

Basic Programming
Getting Started

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