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Will “open internet” IDM Migrate Towards “trust circles” ?

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Eve (aka xmlgrrl) posted the following bit of musing today..

Circles of trust: disaster? or really bad idea?
http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2008/01/21/circles-of-trust-disaster-or-really-bad-idea/

..which I tend to think hits the proverbial nail pretty squarely on the head wrt “open internet”, “trust all comers”, and “trust circles”.
One very small, detail-level comment I have on her post is that where she writes..

(where users […]

New version of OpenID SAML comparison document

Monday, January 21st, 2008

I’ve done a modest editorial and copy editing update to the OpenID SAML technical comparison document announced earlier. Going forward, the latest rev will be available via this URL:

http://identitymeme.org/doc/draft-hodges-saml-openid-compare.html

Technorati Tags: authentication, Open Standards, openid, 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 […]