IBM's Idemix

[Andre Kesteloot]

IBM TO DELIVER OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE THAT WILL HIDE CONSUMER PERSONAL 
DATA FROM IDENTITY THIEVES 
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IBM unveiled an open source software application that will aid consumers 
in avoiding identity theft in on-line transactions. The application is 
called "Idemix," short for Identity Mixer. Idemix acts as a middleman 
between a consumer and an on-line vendor. It creates a "pseudonym" for 
the on-line transaction that hides a consumer's personal data such as 
name, credit card number, address, etc. Trusted third-party institutions 
such as banks will issue vouchers to merchants that contain the 
consumer's information. Therefore, when a merchant receives a pseudonym 
in an on-line translation the customer's data does not need to be 
transmitted. Reducing the transmission of personal data will decrease 
the risk of identity theft. IBM said Idemix will be offered to the 
Eclipse Open Source Foundation's Project Higgins, which is an open 
source identity management framework backed by IBM, Novell and Harvard 
University. [InfoWorld 
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/26/HNibmdatapriv_1.html> 26Jan07/]
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