Congratulations to Byron Galbraith, a senior in BioE, who was recently named one of 6 finalists in the e-gate Open Worldwide USB smart card developer contest sponsored by axalto. Byron will travel to San Francisco later in June to present his concept at the JavaOne conference where he will compete for top prizes.

Byron's concept, called TrustedPresence, is a digital identity management and data communications system based on the XMPP (Jabber) protocols, which supports secure, enterprise-class presence and messaging services such as Instant Messaging (IM) and data systems integration. By combining the concepts of federated identity as specified by the Liberty Alliance framework and strong authentication as defined by the Initiative for Open Authentication (OATH) roadmap, TrustedPresence utilizes e-gate smart card technology to provide an extensive, highly secure, multi-factor authentication platform ideal for sensitive corporate and governmental data communications.