Using the U-Prove™ SDK, organizations can protect identity-related assertions with unprecedented security, thereby opening up new data-flow capabilities. At the same time, the SDK enables critical privacy and user control functions that are particularly relevant to cross-domain identity management. For example, users can strongly authenticate to any number of parties without real-time involvement of a central identity provider, prove unanticipated properties of protected identity assertions, and transfer data between unlinked accounts. The SDK is ideally suited for creating the electronic equivalent of the cards in one’s wallet and for protecting identity-related information in frameworks such as SAML, Liberty ID-WSF, and Windows CardSpace.

The U-Prove SDK requires a Java runtime environment that is compatible with the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, v1.4.2. The SDK comes with extensive documentation and abundant sample code.

For an explanation of the features implemented in the SDK, see this white paper and its companion presentation explain . Also see the SDK data sheet and the related press release for additional information.

Dr. Ann Cavoukian (Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario), Mike Neuenschwander (Vice President and Research Director at Burton Group), and Scott Cantor (security architect at Ohio State University and an author of OpenSAML and Shibboleth) have commented on the release of the U-Prove SDK. Read their comments here. Furthermore, market analyst Burton Group has published a report on user-centric identity previewing the U-Prove SDK.