Higgins Selector

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This page describes the Higgins Card Selectors. For an introduction, see the the Information Card Foundation's quick overview of cards and selectors.

A card selector is a piece of software that runs on a computer or mobile device. The user can get cards from card issuing websites and can store them in this selector in much the same way a person puts business, library, loyalty and payment cards in their wallet.

• By clicking on a card you can log into sites. No more passwords.
• By clicking on a card you express yourself. No more filling in forms.
• You can share cards with friends and businesses you trust.
• Some cards create permanent connections to your friends, communities and businesses.

Some selector clients take advantage of cloud-based services. These services include:

Cloud Selector

Makes your cards available as OpenIDs. Reads card data from an I-Card Service, so no client software is required. (Higgins 1.1 only)

I-Card Service

Some selectors are designed as "thin clients" that only implement the user interface portion and rely on a hosted I-Card Service for core functionality. (Higgins 1.0 & 1.1)

CardSync Service

Makes sure that all of your cards are available across all of your computers and mobile devices. (Higgins 1.1)

Attribute

Stores self asserted identity data and makes it available for data sharing with others. It also provides data gateway services to connect the client selector with a variety of back end data stores. (Higgins 1.1 only)

Higgins 1.0 Selector

• GTK and Cocoa Selector 1.0 - for Firefox (or other applications) on Linux, FreeBSD and OSX (client-based native code app)
• RCP Selector 1.0 - an Eclipse RCP Application (client-based Java app; requires JRE 1.4 or higher)
• Firefox-Embedded Selector 1.0 - for Firefox on Windows, Linux, and OSX (Requires hosted I-Card Service Component)

Higgins 1.1 Selector

Plan

See the Higgins 1.1 Selector section of the Higgins 1.1 Plan