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Re: Cross logins
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (RL 'Bob' Morgan)
Thu Aug 4 09:55:57 2005
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Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 11:22:10 +0200 (CEST)
From: "RL 'Bob' Morgan" <rlmorgan@washington.edu>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, James A. Donald wrote:
> Is it possible for two web sites to arrange for cross logins?
Not only possible but standardized, in production, with multiple
interoperable vendor and open source implementations. You may even have
used it (ie, SAML) already via some service.
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=security
There are also many many proposals (eg SXIP, LID, passel, openID) to do
similar things in a less spec-intensive fashion.
- RL "Bob"
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