Digital certificates and identity are tightly linked, because a certificate is essentially a signed statement that a particular public key belongs to a particular name. Every secure website, many signed emails and countless corporate devices…
Windows privacy settings shape how much information a PC shares with Microsoft, app developers and advertisers, yet most people accept the defaults during setup and never revisit them. Windows is Microsoft’s desktop operating system, used…
Public key identity credentials are credentials built on a pair of cryptographic keys, one kept private and one shared, that let a person or device prove who it is without revealing a reusable secret. Passkeys,…
ChromeOS privacy settings matter more than many Chromebook owners expect, because the device is built around a Google account and a browser that syncs across machines. ChromeOS is Google’s operating system for Chromebooks and similar…
OAuth identity authorization refers to the way OAuth 2.0 lets you grant an application limited access to your data on another service without handing over your password. When a photo printing site asks to read…
iOS privacy controls are designed to be visible and approachable, yet many iPhone owners never look beyond the prompts that appear when an app first asks for access. iOS is the operating system Apple builds…
SAML identity federation is the use of the Security Assertion Markup Language, version 2.0, to let one organization’s identity provider sign users in to another organization’s applications. It remains one of the most widely deployed…
Android privacy controls give phone owners more say over their data than many people realize, but they are spread across system settings, app pages and the Google account linked to the device. Android is the…
OpenID Connect identity is the layer of sign-in information that the OpenID Connect standard adds on top of OAuth 2.0, letting an application learn reliably who a user is and how they signed in. It…
CalyxOS privacy features aim to give ordinary phone owners stronger privacy without asking them to give up the convenience they expect from a modern smartphone. CalyxOS is an open-source mobile operating system based on the…