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Sun ONE Identity Server 6.0

Posted by timothy on from the crisis-identify dept.

scubacuda points to this article at The Register, about "what is believed to be the industry's first identity server based on Liberty Alliance Project specifications for federated network identity (date sheet here). Other reports of Sun's release: eWeek, Information Week, Computer World, & Y!"

2 of 87 comments (clear)

  1. Re:So Wait? by fuzzbrain · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is a developing open source implementation of distributed login here. There was a good article by Doc Searls about PingID and the Liberty Alliance in the December 2002 edition of Linux Journal.

  2. This is precisely the problem that is avoided by Mindbridge · · Score: 5, Informative

    Notice that Sun and the Liberty Aliance do NOT offer a centralized identity repository a la Passport. This is a distributed solution -- as a provider (internet store, etc.) you install an authentication server and decide yourself what other providers you can trust, so that if a user is logged in their site, he can be considered logged in yours as well (put simply).

    The only requirement is that the server implements the Liberty Aliance protocol standards. I _think_ one can make an open source server that implements those standards as well.