Why isn't U-Prove more widespread?
Why isn't U-Prove more widespread?
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U-Prove - Microsoft Research
Overview A U-Prove token is a type of credential similar to a PKI certificate that can encode attributes of any type, but with two important differences: 1) The issuance and presentation of a token is...
U-Prove seems to me to be pretty close to a perfect auth system. It is possible to disclose only specific attributes and every prove is unlinkable (given no unique attribute is disclosed). Also it supports generating an unique, identity-linked ID per domain.
So I wonder why this technology is not used anywhere I know of?