IBM plans to broadly offer its Identity Mixer technology

IBM said Wednesday that it will make technology called Identity Mixer, a cryptographic algorithm to better secure identities, available to developers via its BlueMix cloud platform.

Identity Mixer’s technology uses an algorithm to encrypt personal data that’s verified—age, birthdates, address, credit card number etc.—and share only what’s needed with third parties. The demo by IBM illustrated how a 12 year old could share information with a streaming movie service to verify age yet keep other details private.

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