Archive for the 'Open Source' Category

I Done Left Los Windows…

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

I’m blogging about my personal computing environment over on my “personal” blog, and just posted a note about my recent migration from MS Windows XP to (K)ubuntu GNU/Linux. Here’s a pointer to it..

I Done Left Los Windows…
http://kingsmountain.com/blog/archives/2008/01/30/i-done-left-los-windows/

=JeffH
Technorati Tags: debian, gnu, kubuntu, linux, Microsoft, opensource, ubuntu, windows

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

PHP SAML 2.0 IdP launched!

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Andreas Åkre Solberg writes on his Feide blog..

simpleSAMLphp 0.3 is launched. Most interesting in this new release is the SAML 2.0 IdP functionality. The documentation is not covering everything in detail yet, but it should be sufficient to get something up running.

The simpleSAMLphp 0.3 package also features a Shibboleth 1.3-compatible SP written in PHP.
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XMLdsig implementations for scripting languages

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Various folks in what is becoming known as the “scripter” community, i.e. people who code in Perl/PHP/Python/Ruby scripting languages, have complained that SAML is “too hard” to implement, for essentially two reasons..

Having to parse XML.
Having to use XMLdsig — XML Digital Signature specification.

The first excuse is becoming more and more moot as tools and techniques […]