Archive for March, 2006

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

My colleague and friend, Susan Landau, works (in one of her multi-facets) at the intersection of privacy, security, and public policy. I find it a good idea to keep up on what she’s writing in these areas. She doesn’t (yet?) have a blog per-se, but watching the publications section of her homepage works pretty well — hence there being a link to her page in my sidebar here. She has a couple of recent articles on the multi-faceted topic of the Internet/VoIP and wiretapping/CALEA that are interesting and provocative…

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Saturday, March 11th, 2006

I recently co-authored a major rewrite of the so-called “SIP SAML” I-D, crafting it into an actual SAMLv2 profile and binding, now (rather plainly) entitled “SIP SAML Profile and Binding”. Here’s the publication announcement: I-D ACTION:draft-tschofenig-sip-saml-05.txt.

Here is the abstract:

This document specifies a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) profile of Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) as well as a SAML SIP binding. The defined SIP SAML Profile composes with the mechanisms defined in the SIP Identity specification and satisfy requirements presented in “Trait-based Authorization Requirements for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)”.

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Saturday, March 11th, 2006

The “SIP Identity” Internet-Draft, whose lead author is my colleague Jon Peterson, was recently blessed by the IESG and is to be issued as a “Proposed Standard” RFC. Here’s the announcement: Protocol Action: ‘Enhancements for Authenticated Identity Management in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)’ to Proposed Standard.

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Saturday, March 11th, 2006

My colleague John Kemp has blogged a quick, accurate (although partial) tutorial on the Liberty Authentication Service, of which I was the original designer (see my bibliography). I hope he gets the time to post part 2 of his write-up!

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