By Sean Gallagher ovell's Digitalme technology, demonstrated at last week's BrainShare conference in Salt Lake City, is aimed squarely at managing and protecting personal data on the Internet. At its most basic, Digitalme is an interface to a public directory-specifically, Novell Directory Services. It provides a Web graphical front end through which individuals can enter, modify, and append personal data in the directory-and control who accesses it. Novell protects all the information in the public directory through encryption. Because the directory is persistent and public, Web sites won't have to store personal information-the user retains control over that information and is able to update it, or remove it, at will.
Information is accessible to others only if they have a valid public key.