http://identitymeme.org =JeffH's musings on identity, security, protocols, SDOs, and tussles thereof... Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:07:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just ran across this group at Last.fm.. Stats ..it’s denizens post articles about and pointers to cool little gizmos/widgets/whathaveyous that one can use to leverage Last.fm data. I ran across it via this person’s profile.. Anthony Liekens ..he has a personal website where he offers.. Data mining musical profiles Anthony Liekens, March, 28-April, 2 2007 ..that ... http://identitymeme.org/archives/2008/03/10/stats-%e2%80%93-a-cool-lastfm-group/ 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 http://identitymeme.org/archives/2008/01/30/i-done-left-los-windows%e2%80%a6/ 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 ... http://identitymeme.org/archives/2008/01/21/will-open-internet-idm-migrate-towards-trust-circles/ 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 http://identitymeme.org/archives/2008/01/21/new-version-of-openid-saml-comparison-document/ 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 ... http://identitymeme.org/archives/2007/12/18/open-saml-wiki-is-open-for-business/ 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 ... http://identitymeme.org/archives/2007/12/18/saml-open-source-implementations-page/ 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 ... http://identitymeme.org/archives/2007/12/17/draft-technical-comparison-openid-and-saml/ I’ve updated the SAML-lSSO and SAML OpenID Profile specs just to bring them up-to-date with the latest revisions of various SAML and OpenID specs and to fix minor editorial issues. The SAML-lSSO spec is presently not a current IETF Internet-Draft — it’s prior version expired a few months ago. We’re ... http://identitymeme.org/archives/2007/09/21/latest-revisions-of-saml-lsso-and-saml-openid-profile/ 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 ... http://identitymeme.org/archives/2007/09/07/php-saml-20-idp-launched/ Here’s someone — Phil Duba — out in the wide web-developer world who’s picked up the SAML specs, largely figured them out, and is working on integrating it (SAML-based SSO) into sites built with Cold Fusion… SAML and ColdFusion - Part 1 http://www.philduba.com/index.cfm/2006/12/29/SAML-and-ColdFusion–Part-1 SAML and ColdFusion - Part 2 http://www.philduba.com/index.cfm/2007/2/9/SAML-and-ColdFusion–Part-2 Cool Stuff. Technorati Tags: saml, ... http://identitymeme.org/archives/2007/02/09/saml-and-coldfusion/