Business partnerships
always endeavor to make internal resources accessible
to partners: that is to say administering access privileges to one
own network??™s assets for accounts and identities managed by
somebody else. In fact, many schemes and technologies beyond
passwords have been developed for this purpose. In the section
???The Babel,??? we examine some of them. You will see how certain
patterns we have seen in password adoption will repeat
themselves in this case, too. Technologies that work well inside
the boundaries of one company, or in the context of a wellde
?¬?ned business partnership, are not necessarily ?¬?t for a verbatim
extension to the vast sea of the Internet. How we extend the
bene?¬?ts of digital identity from the business world to wide consumer
availability is the key theme of Chapter 2.
The Babel
Passwords and shared secrets are not the best way of expressing
and transmitting credentials. Hopefully, the discussion so far has
made that point explicit.
Authentication is important for everybody, but for certain
processes and markets it is truly business critical. Hence it
should not come as a surprise that a number of robust alternative
credential-passing techniques have been developed and
adopted through the entire industry.
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