SourceID | Federated Identity Primer - The Diigo Meta page

• 18 Dec 07
  

  Philip Guth

  directory identity management services

  • To build the gateways, he is licensing the core SourceID Liberty protocol software technology from Ping Identity.
  • Federated Identity requires loosely-coupled software architecture for automatically exchanging identity information between heterogeneous systems. Standards are essential for this process. Several efforts are underway to create specifications for exchanging identity information.

  • The Security Assertions Mark-up Language (SAML) is an XML-based specification developed by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). SAML provides a common language for three kinds of assertions:

    • Authentication assertions: declarations about a user.s identity
    • Attribute assertions containing particular details about a user
    • Authorization decision assertions, which specify what the user is allowed to do at a particular site

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