Tag Archives: shibboleth
hCard is not a provisioning engine (for private data)
Last week I wrote about how hCard is much more appropriate than OpenID for the provisioning use-case and Chris continued that discussion, questioning why we need SREG and Attribute Exchange when hCard works just fine.
So the question is, when OpenID is clearly a player in the future and part of that promise is [...]
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OpenID is not a provisioning engine
In talking about the future possibilities of OpenID 2.0 and the Attribute Exchange extension, James Henstridge mentions,
Imagine being able to update your shipping address in one place when you
move house and having all the online retailers you use receive the updated
address immediately. Or changing your email address [...]
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Posted in identity, technology Also tagged hcard, ldap, microformats, openid, openid-ax, provisioning, saml 4 Comments
Shibboleth definition
Perhaps the best definition of Shibboleth I’ve ever seen:
Shibboleth loosely translated means, “Who the fuck are you?”
- Dead Library
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OpenID provider wish-list
A week or so ago, Nic Ferrier of prooveme contacted me about a previous post I made that referenced prooveme.com in regards to strong authentication. He ended the email,
We’d like to be your provider of choice - so do tell us what you want to see.
I had been meaning to post a [...]
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try { reuse; } catch (Ex) { reinvent; }
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