Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Single Sign On

I was googling today to find solution, how to integerate Waveset product Lighthouse with other systems to implement Single Sign On.

Learned about Liberty and SAML.

what is SAML?
- Security Assertion Markup Language

SAML is a framework for exchanging authentication and authorization information. Security typically involves checking the credentials presented by a party for authentication and authorization. SAML standardizes the representation of these credentials in an XML format called assertions, enhancing the interoperability between disparate applications.

What is Liberty Protocol?

The Liberty Alliance Project specifications provide a single sign-on mechanism for both Websites and Web services.

This article lists a number of Liberty Protocol and fundamentals that help to protect an SSO

Another sso presentation article by Sun systems.

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