Posts with keyword: saml

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Lightbulb: Bringing SAML to PHP

Tue Dec 5 12:29:00 2006

Pat Patterson spoke on using SAML in a "Web 2.0 World." SAML provides a good mechanism for transporting identity attributes. But to use SAML on the wild Web, you've got to support dynamic languages like PHP. Pat has a mechanism for using SAML from PHP. One way to do this is using a PHP/Java bridge that talks to an existing federation manager. This is overkill if you've got one little site you want to use federation on. Pat has a project, called Lightbulb, that puts SAML directly into PHP. No custom PHP modules required. Future parts of Lightbulb may
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IIW2005: Brett McDowell on Liberty Alliance

Wed Oct 26 12:36:00 2005

Brett McDowall is speaking on Liberty Alliance to "engage the bottom-up community." The vision of Liberty Alliance (LA) is a networked world in which individuals and businesses can share identity information in a protected way. LA is working on technology standards and guidelines, business and privacy guidelines, and an ecosystem of interoperable products and services. The board and sponsors of LA are most of the big companies you'd recognize. But 50% of the membership is either non-profit or a company with less than 100 employees. Liberty ID-WSF 2.0 is based on SAML 2.0, WS-Security, and WS-Addressing. An earlier version
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