Archive for December, 2007

SAML Wiki is open for business

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

It looks like this new SAML wiki..
SAML.XML.org
..opened for business on or about the middle of October 2007. Looks like it’ll be a good resource for the wide SAML community.
There’s also another wiki that’s apparently for the members of the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee (SSTC - the group creating and shepherding the SAML specs)..
SSTC […]

SAML Open Source Implementations Page

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

This page..
SAML Open Source Implemenations

..lists eight (at this time) open source SAML implementations of one flavor or another. If you have one and it isn’t listed there as yet, create an account and edit the wiki page appropriately
Technorati Tags: Open Standards, saml, Security, simplified sign on, single sign on

(Draft) Technical Comparison: OpenID and SAML

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Over the past couple of years quite a few folks have asked me, and I’m sure others, “what’s the salient differences between OpenID and SAML?” So earlier this year I began hacking together a technical comparison of the two. It’s an interesting exercise comparing two Web SSO protocols, even one as ostensibly simple, and […]