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2004-11-30

 

It's You? Ping You're It!

Slashdot | E-commerce Single Sign-On Not Dead Yet.  This find is about a federated identity system that is neither Passport nor Liberty Alliance, but an open-source effort from Andre Durand, who headed up Jabber. Ross Wehner's 2004-11-28 Denver Post article makes a great read and provides more information on how Ping Identity will work, as well as what the point of open-source introduction is all about. The Ping Identity Corporation home page is not that thrilling, probably because I have scripts and mobile code disabled by default.  There is a passle of PDF resources of various kinds, and some require registration and e-mail confirmation and activation.  While waiting for the e-mail, I learned that SourceID Liberty 2.0 Beta is available for download.  It is also certified as "Liberty Interoperable."  The presence of a customizable workflow engine is emphasized as an important core element of the Beta release. I am interested in digital identity for a number of reasons, and in open-source approaches for a sizable fraction of the cases I have in mind.  It will be a while before I have digested all of this. After my registration activation came through, I confirmed that there is a substantial amount of information.  The open-source aspects of SourceID are handled at a separate SourceID site.  Many of the same materials are provided, and my new password works there too, naturally. There are several toolkits and proofs-of-concept available for download.  They are implemented for Java and .NET, which raises interesting questions for me, trapped in the world of C/C++ for my earliest applications of identity!  The use of SAML (Security Assertions Markup Language) is also something I want to check out, though.  Oh, there is an RSS feed too.

 
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