dns.me
Big players such as Google and Facebook control online identity, while users have to do ad-hoc management of their home devices. Adoption of recent standards for online identity such as OpenID has been very slow. dns.me is building a one-stop identity server that emphasises ease-of-use and device integration, but without depending on third-party infrastructure.
Users have to deal with a bewildering array of credentials at many levels: 3rd party web-sites, local machines and phones, network connections and VPNs, smartcards. This project asks how we can unify this into a single personal identity server that can re-export the information using Internet standards such as DNSSEC, OpenID, and also provide secure updates.
The result will enable the user to host their own identity on the cloud without relying on third-party services such as Google or Facebook, which currently have the power to arbitrarily snoop or deny access to users.