Archive for September, 2006

SAMLv2: HTTP Post-SimpleSign Binding

Friday, September 8th, 2006

Scott Cantor and I have revised the SAML HTTP POST-NoXMLdsig binding, which I’d posted about a while back.
We’ve renamed the binding to: “HTTP POST-SimpleSign”
The revised spec is here: draft-hodges-saml-binding-simplesign-01.pdf.
Note that the new “SimpleSign” spec obsoletes the old “NoXMLdsig” one.
There’s also various other relatively minor (some are subtle-but-important) changes and fixes, […]

How to Study and Learn SAML

Friday, September 8th, 2006

Here’s a doc I recently constructed as an aid for other protocol designers and system/protocol implementors to use in figuring out how to go about “learning SAML”…
http://identitymeme.org/doc/draft-hodges-learning-saml-00.html
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A new Liberty/SAML opensource project: ZXID

Friday, September 8th, 2006

A new Liberty / SAML opensource project has just emerged — ZXID.org — with an emphasis on embedding the identity functionality in the “application layer” and supporting Perl and PHP.
From the web page:

ZXID project has currently (Aug 2006) three outputs

libzxid

A C library for supporting SAML 2.0, including federated Single Sign-On

zxid

A C program that implements a […]