Phil Windley

MAY 27, 2021

I won't get into the details around how this is done securely, but you can read for more detail The Architecture of Identity Systems if you're curious. Alice proves her name and date of birth using a verifiable credential representing her driver's license. The veracity of an X.509 The advantage of X.509 No small thing.

Banking 98

Banking Licensing Architecture Security 98

Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Its software development kit makes it possible to write add-on modules that integrate with open-source, third-party and legacy systems. AppDeployer also is available as a licensed product for deployment in customers’ own clouds. AppDeployer leverages a platform engine licensed from Virtual Global. Popular Pages.

Cloud 99

Cloud Software Development Applications Government 99

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 16, 2023

Companies are looking at Google’s Bard, Anthropic’s Claude, Databricks’ Dolly, Amazon’s Titan, or IBM’s WatsonX, but also open source AI models like Llama 2 from Meta. Open source models are also getting easier to deploy. We feel that every hyperscaler will have open source generative AI models quickly.”

Open Source 89

Open Source Training Licensing Enterprise 89

Phil Windley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Vitalik gives a great breakdown of different types of decentralization, listing architectural decentralization, political decentralization, and logical decentralization. But the architecture (no infrastructural central point of failure) and politics (no one controls them) of Bitcoin are decentralized. The code is open source.

Architecture 70

Architecture System Network Open Source 70

Phil Windley

MARCH 13, 2020

Summary: The Sovrin Identity Metasystem is based on a sophisticated stack of protocols, implemented in open-source code, backed and supported by hundreds of organizations, large and small, around the world. This post is based on Section 2 of the Sovrin Technical Architecture paper that Drummond Reed and I authored (to be published).

Government 59

Government Network Open Source Policies 59

Dataconomy

JULY 18, 2023

A diverse tapestry of participants, ranging from imposing corporate giants to ambitious startups, and extending to the altruistic open-source community, is deeply engrossed in the exciting endeavor to innovate the most advanced large language models. This open-source chatbot, an alternative to ChatGPT, is now accessible free of charge.

Open Source 36

Open Source Training Research Applications 36

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

WIENS: Yeah, so So Vector 35 grew out of a number of folks that were playing CTFs that were doing vulnerability research doing reverse engineering for government contracting purposes and then thought like, you know what, it'd be nice to see sunshine, have a window at her office, get outside, do more Hilton commercial.

Engineering 40

Engineering Tools Software Software 40

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Should the OpenStack community focus on creating an open source alternative to Amazon and Google? The issue is governance of OpenStack. Architectural compatibility means that apps can move freely from private to public and back, when needed. “We Government. Cloud APIs at Heart of Debate. Cloud Wars. White Papers.

Google 199

Google Data Center Cloud Open Source 199

Phil Windley

AUGUST 12, 2020

In his article Architecture Eats Culture Eats Strategy , Tim Bouma makes the point that the old management chestnut Culture Eats Strategy leaves open the question: how do we change the culture. Tim's point is that architecture (in the general sense) is the upstream predator to culture. This is their fundamental architecture.

Authentication 111

Authentication Architecture System Examples 111

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2022

What we’re seeing now is governments kicking in various rulings, various compliance calendars and milestones: The Jan. 19, 2022, national security memo from the US federal government enjoins the sensitive agencies of the United States to start moving from RSA towards post-RSA. The UK government has issued its communiques.

Enterprise 73

Enterprise Enterprise Banking Software 73

Phil Windley

DECEMBER 3, 2020

These and other complicated workflows are all supported by a standards-based, open-source, protocol-supporting system for secure, privacy-preserving messaging. Picos run on an open-source engine that can be run on anything that supports Node JS. Photo Credit: F-150 from ArtisticOperations (Pixabay License).

Internet 52

Internet Insurance Course Open Source 52

Phil Windley

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Because of this architecture, Sovrin is difficult to categorize in the various discussions of permissioned and permissionless blockchain systems. One common refrain is "blockchains don't need trust (governance) frameworks." Another goes "the point of blockchain is to avoid governance." An Internet for Identity (Aug 2016).

Open Source 45

Open Source Network Architecture Government 45

Phil Windley

JANUARY 26, 2021

Here are the most important: Private — Privacy by Design is baked deep into the architecture of the identity metasystem as reflected by several fundamental architectural choices: Peer DIDs are pairwise unique and pseudonymous by default to prevent correlation. Drivers license. Business licenses. Wire authorizations.

Internet 71

Internet Authentication Architecture Examples 71

Phil Windley

AUGUST 20, 2019

When you hand your driver’s license to the bartender to establish your legal age, we would be surprised if she could remember all the detailed information it contains, like your address, and do that for every patron she encountered. Messaging —the architecture must support messaging between the parties to those relationships.

Internet 102

Internet Banking System Architecture 102

A Screw's Loose

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The Consumerization of IT (CoIT) has led them to realize that they can’t keep selling businesses licenses to their product that will sit on the shelf unused due to the exorbitant control that IT would be exerting on a user’s device. order to be competitive though, a company is going to have to open. This is why.

Mobile 83

Mobile Enterprise Enterprise Security 83