Our hosted personal digital identity service, mylid.net has been upgraded to beta 2 over the weekend. Apart from the to-be-expected bug fixes from beta 1, it also provides substantial new features:

• An audit log by which the user can review all digital identity transactions that they, or anybody else performed that involved their digital identity. Through this log, the user can understand which 3rd parties retrieve, or attempt to retrieve, any of their personal information and when. The user can also detect any fraudent uses (or attempts of use) of their digital identity because all uses are logged, together with the authenticated LID of the person attempting to use their digital identity.
• Authenticated messaging, through which any owner of a LID can send an authenticated message to any another owner of a LID. mylid.net forwards this message to the user's e-mail address without revealing it to anybody. Such authenticated messaging prevents Phishing and spam attacks while putting the fun and utility back into messaging. This is ideal for web-based contact forms, for example.
• More features to come. Stay tuned for beta 3.

As before, the mylid.net beta is open and free. To try it out, go to signup.mylid.net.