The board game portal www.spellenmug.nl offers several options for single sign on. Most of them are OpenID based. Only one leverages SAML v2: the only free, open and public SAML V2 Identity Provider SSOCircle. SSOCircle IDP has now more than 250 integrated SAML v2 service providers in its SSOCircle of trust. Although many of them […]
Ferry Meewisse, a dutch bag designer, who runs the web site frrry.com, bags & fashion accessories, is using SSOCircle as a login option for partners and employees. Beside Google, Yahoo!, MySpace.com, myOpenID and generic OpenID, they have the option to log in via SSOCircle and leverage several strong authentication options like X.509 certificates, USB tokens […]
As part of project PicketLink Marcel Kolsteren, Seam Integration Lead, developed a module that allows developers to easily connect their seam application to external identity providers. The module supports SAML and OpenID. It also ships with an out-of-the box integration with SSOCircle. You will find a preconfigured saml-entities.xml file which includes the meta data for […]
It is already 3 years ago when SSOCircle, the free public multi protocol IDP, went into production. What happens in the past year ? We added new devices to our strong authentication options: The Yubikey and the Swekey, two new innovative OTP tokens. Users do not need to type in the one time passwords. In […]
Recently Salesforce.com added SAML 2.0 support. We have launched a sample that allows users to single sign on to Salesforce with their exisiting SSOCircle account. The individual account is mapped to a group account (due to our limitation in salesforce users). Just click on the IDP initiated SSO link and you will be prompted to […]
Visit our new SAML 2.0 enabled WordPress blogging system, where we moved all our articles from the former news section. You have to log in with your SSOCircle account to leave a comment. We also added some newsfeeds from interesting blogs on identity. We hope that it will be a usefull source for all identity-minded. […]
SSOCircle and IDPee now support different SAML2 authentication contexts. The SP is now able to require that a user is authenticated at the specified security strength. SSOCircle will determine the current authentication level and if necessary, asking the user to reauthenticate to the stronger security level. Think of three different types of use cases. For […]
How long does it take to setup an IDP ? Do you really want to read long manuals and fighting with installation and certificates ? Are you dreaming of automagically connect ? IDPee.com, the identity provider enterprise edition comes as a hosted service. Reducing your setup and operational costs, SAML v2 IDP is now getting […]
SSOCircle has started a pilot to support OpenID. You can now use your SSOCircle account at OpenID relying parties. Just type in <yourSSOCircleID>.ssocircle.com as your personal OpenID URL at the service site and experience SSO that opens up the SAML and the OpenID world.
User self administration pages now provide functionality for displaying and managing own profiles, SAML 2.0 account federations and OpenID trust settings. Service Provider administrators now have an easy-to-use interface to import, list and remove SAML 2.0 Metadata.
