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"SAML is an XML-based language for making security-related assertions about a security principal - some entity (often a human being) having an identity that can be authenticated. SAML also specifies protocols that use the language to perform tasks such as Web browser-based single sign-on (SSO) and data attribute exchange (including for the purposes of authorization)." | "SAML is an XML-based language for making security-related assertions about a security principal - some entity (often a human being) having an identity that can be authenticated. SAML also specifies protocols that use the language to perform tasks such as Web browser-based single sign-on (SSO) and data attribute exchange (including for the purposes of authorization)." | ||
(http://jkemp.net/docs/saml-overview.html) | (http://jkemp.net/docs/saml-overview.html) | ||
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Latest revision as of 09:07, 7 January 2011
= The Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
URL = http://jkemp.net/docs/saml-overview.html
Description
"SAML is an XML-based language for making security-related assertions about a security principal - some entity (often a human being) having an identity that can be authenticated. SAML also specifies protocols that use the language to perform tasks such as Web browser-based single sign-on (SSO) and data attribute exchange (including for the purposes of authorization)." (http://jkemp.net/docs/saml-overview.html)