Once upon a time there was a computer company that loved open source software but they forgot to make money. Another big successful company came and bought the other. The big company did not like open source but they know how to make money. Since they already had similar closed-source software products, they decided to [...]
It is nothing really new, but it was a missing feature in the administration GUI of our Public IDP: Configuring which user profile attributes should be sent as an AttributeStatement in a SAML assertion. The feature has always been there, but administrators had to open a service request to have attributes configured. Now, you can [...]
This year’s European Identity & Cloud Conference took place from 17.-20. April with the last day being a workshop day to deepen some of the topics. The event is one of the most important IAM meetings in the world and continues to increase its impact. Almost 600 visitors from allover the world and 40 exhibitors [...]
SSOCircle Toolbox Part 3: Continuing our series on field tools that help troubleshooting SAML federation problems, we are now adding online decoder and encoder to translate SAML messages into readable text. In many cases you need to see what is in the SAML messages even if you have no access to the servers log files. [...]
In December Google announced the availability of SAML SSO and other APIs within the free edition of Google Apps. SAML was already introduced for the premium/business and educational versions back in 2007. But now you can benefit from this feature to make access to all versions of Google Apps more secure. This article has two [...]
It is already a year ago when we published the article “Service-now.com: On Demand IT Service Management supports SAML 2.0″ which ended with the sentence “Looking forward for more to come …” One year after we have set up an online demo showcasing SAML single sign on between SSOCircle and ServiceNow. With Google Apps offering [...]
SSOCircle Toolbox Series Part 1 Understanding the “iPlanetDirectoryPro” session cookie can be key to debugging problems like OpenSSO / OpenAM internal session rooting, persistence problems and misconfiguration. The SSOCircle Toolbox OpenSSO / OpenAM session decoder: http://idp.ssocircle.com/sso/toolbox/ossoDProDecode.jsp The iPlanetDirectoryPro Cookie is used by OpenSSO and OpenAM to reference a specific user session. It consists of an [...]
SSOCircle Toolbox Series Part 2 OpenSSO and OpenAM store passwords (for example J2EE Policy Agents) encrypted in configuration files. If you need to encrypt a password without having access to the bundled encryption tools, use the SSOCircle Toolbox OpenSSO / OpenAM Password Encryption web tool. And if you can’t remember what the password was and [...]
The cloud conference in the clouds or at least close to the clouds took place from 18.-21. July 2011 in Keystone, Rocky Mountains, at an altitude of 2.830m. The conference was organized by Ping Identity, headed by Andre Durand who put a lot of passion into the conference and into the fostering of the “identity [...]
This year’s European Identity Conference (EIC2011), a fixed star in the digital identity world took place in Munich, Germany, from 10.-12. May and a supplemental workshop day on the 13th. As last year the conference also hosted the Cloud 2011. In terms of venue the conference made a leap into the future from the venerable [...]
