{"id":471,"date":"2006-06-10T19:21:59","date_gmt":"2006-06-11T03:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=471"},"modified":"2006-06-11T13:00:06","modified_gmt":"2006-06-11T21:00:06","slug":"a-saml-federation-supporting-infocard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"A SAML FEDERATION SUPPORTING INFOCARDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img style=\"padding-left: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; padding-top: 10px\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/06\/ping-infocard-demo-small.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: '\u00ef\u00bc\u00ad\u00ef\u00bc\u00b3 \u00ef\u00bc\u00b0\u00e3\u201a\u00b4\u00e3\u201a\u00b7\u00e3\u0192\u0192\u00e3\u201a\u00af'; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.durand.com\/\">Andre Durand<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pingidentity.com\/\">Ping Identity<\/a> has&nbsp;told me&nbsp;about what he&#39;ll be demonstating at <a href=\"http:\/\/catalyst.burtongroup.com\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Catalyst 2006<\/a> &#8211; important stuff.&nbsp; As the post at the right puts it:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: '\u00ef\u00bc\u00ad\u00ef\u00bc\u00b3 \u00ef\u00bc\u00b0\u00e3\u201a\u00b4\u00e3\u201a\u00b7\u00e3\u0192\u0192\u00e3\u201a\u00af'; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: '\u00ef\u00bc\u00ad\u00ef\u00bc\u00b3 \u00ef\u00bc\u00b0\u00e3\u201a\u00b4\u00e3\u201a\u00b7\u00e3\u0192\u0192\u00e3\u201a\u00af'; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial\">A&nbsp;user authenticates to a healthcare portal leveraging a self-asserted InfoCard. The user\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s credentials are validated by a Java InfoCard Server built by Ping Identity. PingFederate is then used to enable federated single sign-on to a remote Web site without a redundant user authentication. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: '\u00ef\u00bc\u00ad\u00ef\u00bc\u00b3 \u00ef\u00bc\u00b0\u00e3\u201a\u00b4\u00e3\u201a\u00b7\u00e3\u0192\u0192\u00e3\u201a\u00af'; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: '\u00ef\u00bc\u00ad\u00ef\u00bc\u00b3 \u00ef\u00bc\u00b0\u00e3\u201a\u00b4\u00e3\u201a\u00b7\u00e3\u0192\u0192\u00e3\u201a\u00af'; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: '\u00ef\u00bc\u00ad\u00ef\u00bc\u00b3 \u00ef\u00bc\u00b0\u00e3\u201a\u00b4\u00e3\u201a\u00b7\u00e3\u0192\u0192\u00e3\u201a\u00af'; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: '\u00ef\u00bc\u00ad\u00ef\u00bc\u00b3 \u00ef\u00bc\u00b0\u00e3\u201a\u00b4\u00e3\u201a\u00b7\u00e3\u0192\u0192\u00e3\u201a\u00af'; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: '\u00ef\u00bc\u00ad\u00ef\u00bc\u00b3 \u00ef\u00bc\u00b0\u00e3\u201a\u00b4\u00e3\u201a\u00b7\u00e3\u0192\u0192\u00e3\u201a\u00af'; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial\">I&#39;ve spent a lot of&nbsp;time over the last year trying to&nbsp;convince colleagues&nbsp;across the industry that InfoCard technology is not positioned against Liberty or SAML or WS-Federation technology &#8211; that&nbsp;federation protocols could be used on portals powered by WS-Trust&nbsp;through InfoCards.&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: '\u00ef\u00bc\u00ad\u00ef\u00bc\u00b3 \u00ef\u00bc\u00b0\u00e3\u201a\u00b4\u00e3\u201a\u00b7\u00e3\u0192\u0192\u00e3\u201a\u00af'; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: '\u00ef\u00bc\u00ad\u00ef\u00bc\u00b3 \u00ef\u00bc\u00b0\u00e3\u201a\u00b4\u00e3\u201a\u00b7\u00e3\u0192\u0192\u00e3\u201a\u00af'; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial\">Now Ping has an implementation that actually proves it.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: '\u00ef\u00bc\u00ad\u00ef\u00bc\u00b3 \u00ef\u00bc\u00b0\u00e3\u201a\u00b4\u00e3\u201a\u00b7\u00e3\u0192\u0192\u00e3\u201a\u00af'; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial\">&nbsp; I guess this means I can take a break, cool my jets, lay low, and chill.&nbsp; Thanks Andre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: '\u00ef\u00bc\u00ad\u00ef\u00bc\u00b3 \u00ef\u00bc\u00b0\u00e3\u201a\u00b4\u00e3\u201a\u00b7\u00e3\u0192\u0192\u00e3\u201a\u00af'; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: '\u00ef\u00bc\u00ad\u00ef\u00bc\u00b3 \u00ef\u00bc\u00b0\u00e3\u201a\u00b4\u00e3\u201a\u00b7\u00e3\u0192\u0192\u00e3\u201a\u00af'; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: '\u00ef\u00bc\u00ad\u00ef\u00bc\u00b3 \u00ef\u00bc\u00b0\u00e3\u201a\u00b4\u00e3\u201a\u00b7\u00e3\u0192\u0192\u00e3\u201a\u00af'; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial\">Under the covers,&nbsp;the integration&nbsp;can be done in a number of different ways, so I look forward to seeing&nbsp;the details of how Ping has approached it.&nbsp; To download the Ping poster and see the details, <a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/06\/ping-infocard-demo.jpg\">click here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: '\u00ef\u00bc\u00ad\u00ef\u00bc\u00b3 \u00ef\u00bc\u00b0\u00e3\u201a\u00b4\u00e3\u201a\u00b7\u00e3\u0192\u0192\u00e3\u201a\u00af'; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial\">I&#39;m impressed by&nbsp;Ping&#39;s ability to continue to innovate in the identity world.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At next week&#39;s Catalyst, Ping Identity will be demonstrating how InfoCards help power a federated portal supporting Liberty, all the dialects of SAML and WS-Federation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}