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| + | The Personal Data Store (PDS) stores private personal information, synchronizes it to your other devices and computers, and allows you to share selected aspects of your information with people and organizations you trust. The PDS is a secure vault in the cloud that holds personal information about you in encrypted form. Attribute data are encrypted on the client (identity agent) using a client-side key. Under your control it shares your data with organizations and individuals using a variety of protocols. It also synchronizes your data to your computers and mobile devices. | ||
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Under development for Higgins 2.0, the blue areas of the following diagram relate directly to the PDS: | Under development for Higgins 2.0, the blue areas of the following diagram relate directly to the PDS: | ||
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The Personal Data Store (PDS) stores private personal information, synchronizes it to your other devices and computers, and allows you to share selected aspects of your information with people and organizations you trust. The PDS is a secure vault in the cloud that holds personal information about you in encrypted form. Attribute data are encrypted on the client (identity agent) using a client-side key. Under your control it shares your data with organizations and individuals using a variety of protocols. It also synchronizes your data to your computers and mobile devices.
- The Web Portal provides a Web interface to your Personal Data Store that is accessible from any browser.
PDS 2.0
Under development for Higgins 2.0, the blue areas of the following diagram relate directly to the PDS:
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Personal Data Store
The Personal Data Store 2.0 is a web data service that (i) stores personal data and (ii) acts as a proxy/gateway for personal data stored on other services. It can be accessed by:
- Sending XDI messages to its endpoint
- Using the following low level client libraries:
- Org.eclipse.higgins.idas.client (Java IdAS Client)
- Org.eclipse.higgins.idasclient.cpp.core (C++ IdAS Client)
- Using the PDS Client (under development)
PDS Client
The PDS Client 2.0 is code that apps may choose to use to access the Personal Data Store 2.0.
Authentication (AuthN) Service
The IdAS Proxy Service 2.0 and Attribute Service 2.0 require access tokens minted by the Authentication Service 2.0. Eventually the I-Card Service and CardSync Service will also rely on this external authN service.
Authorization Manager
- Authorization Manager (planned) gives the user control over the flows of data from a managed relationship card provider to a relying party. We plan to use/adapt Kantara UMA protocols.
Web Portal
- We plan to develop a Web Portal--an evolution of the Cloud Selector 1.1 from Higgins 1.1 with broader functionality.
Building Blocks
This section describes the data related services, java frameworks and data models that are used by the personal data agent services.
Data Models
Data models used in Higgins code and services:
IdAS Solution
The IdAS solution is a testbed for exercising the IdAS Java framework.
- Higgins 1.1: See Higgins_1.1_Plan#IdAS_Solution_1.1
- Higgins 1.0: IdAS Solution 1.0: a basic configuration of the Identity Attribute Service 1.0 (IdAS). IdAS is a java framework that provides a common interface to identity, profile, and relationship data from external data sources (e.g. websites, databases, directories).
XDI4J
XDI4J is a java library for working with XDI.
- Higgins 1.1: XDI4j 1.1