Wed, 5 March 2008 Discover the basics of single sign-on and how SAML assertions are
finding their way into projects like OpenSSO, NetBeans and Glassfish to
secure web services. SAML V2.0, approved by OASIS in March 2005, is an
XML-based framework for communicating user authentication, entitlement,
and attribute information. Beyond defining the industry-standard
protocol for cross domain Web single sign-on (SSO), SAML is a keystone
of higher level specifications such as Web Services Interoperability
Basic Security Profile (WS-I BSP), the Liberty Alliance's Identity Web
Service Framework (ID-WSF) and even Microsoft's Cardspace. Comments[0] |
