Archive for March, 2006

Observing and Analyzing the Intersection of Privacy, Security, and Public Policy

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 […]

“SIP SAML Profile and Binding” Internet-Draft published

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 […]

SIP Identity to be issued as a “Proposed Standard” RFC

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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Liberty Authentication Service tutorial

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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