LinuxPlanet: Safehaus Finds Open Source Business Model in OATH

“Can an open source .org find happiness and success in teaming
up with a multivendor consortium? It’s a business model that seems
to work for Safehaus, an organization now collaborating with OATH
(Initiative for Open AuTHentication) on technologies for
authenticating cell phone subscribers, among other things.

“For its part, OATH was formed by vendors who perceived a void
in standards around authentication based on strong encryption, said
David Berman, OATH’s membership chair, during an interview with
LinuxPlanet.

“‘The static password has been a weak link. We need to drive
down the costs of strong authentication,’ according to Berman, who
is also director of partner marketing for VeriSign Security
Services…”

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