RE: [security-services] yet another SAML-based effort

From
Scott Cantor <>
Date
2006-07-12T02:22:57+00:00
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002f01c6a55a$197d4e80$
Thread
RE: [security-services] yet another SAML-based effort
> Permis
> http://sec.cs.kent.ac.uk/permis/integrationProjects/SAML.shtml
> 
> This is a SAML-assn-conveyed attribute-based authz system. I chatted just
> a bit with David Chadwick in the hall here at Montreal IETF about 
> it. He says that in his world, "SAML is all the rage, and X>509-based attr
> certs are looked down upon."

The work was done primarily with Shibboleth integration in mind. It's
available in the NMI release train that Shibboleth is also part of:

http://www.nmi-edit.org/releases/index.cfm

There are lots of other goodies there, some SAML, some not.

-- Scott