RE: [saml-dev] SAML 2.0 new features help.

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Scott Cantor <>
Date
2005-10-17T18:23:46+00:00
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RE: [saml-dev] SAML 2.0 new features help.
> This is basically account linking. 
> Ok now I cannot find how SAML 2.0 achieve this in any of the 
> spec at the OASIS web page: 

Core, section 8 on Identifier formats, persistent format. That's about it.
Plus the protocol for NameID rollover and cleanup, of course.

If you're looking for anything else, you're moving out of scope.

> 2)  Also there is a mention about SAML 2.0 providing a 
> protocol which doesn't requires cookies to be exchanged 
> between SP and IDP to achieve session management,

SAML SSO doesn't rely on domain cookies. That's it. It doesn't mean they
each individually don't use cookies.

-- Scott