Asp Forum - [ANN] saml2ruby available at OpenSSO Extensions

Pat Patterson

3/28/2007 7:14:00 AM

SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is the OASIS standard [1] for
representing user authentication, entitlement, and attribute information
in XML. Its most common use is to support cross-domain/federated web
single sign-on (SSO).

Now in version 2.0, SAML is widely supported in enterprise access
management products [2,3] and open source projects [4,5,6,7], but has
only recently made the jump to dynamic languages such as PHP [8] and,
now, Ruby. The OpenSSO project recently announced SAML 2.0 for Ruby
(saml2ruby) as an OpenSSO Extension [9]. The saml2ruby code, kindly
contributed by Todd Saxton, is in early, but functional form - informal
tests show that it successfully interoperates with Sun Java System
Access Manager [10].

If you're working on a Ruby/Rails app and someone has mentioned SSO or
SAML, this should help you out. There is a sample Rails app that shows
how to get SAML-enabled with a minimum of fuss. And, need I mention it,
contributors are always welcome...

Cheers,

Pat

P.S. Apologies for the large number of footnotes. It seemed like some
amount of context was necessary...

[1] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbre...
[2]
http://projectliberty.org/liberty_interoperable/interoperable_products/saml_2_0_test_procedure_v1_0_interoperable_pro...
[3]
http://projectliberty.org/liberty_interoperable/interoperable_products/saml_2_0_test_procedure_v2_0_interoperable_pro...
[4] https://opensso.dev...
[5] http://www.ope...
[6] http://lasso.entro...
[7] http://www...
[8] http://blogs.sun.co.../entry/switching_on_the...
[9] https://opensso.dev...public/extensions/
[10] http://blogs.sun.co.../entry/latest_opensso_extens...

--
Pat Patterson - pat.patterson@sun.com
Federation Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
http://blogs.sun.co...

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