http://news.com.com/2100-1001-980266.html?tag=fd_top ... snip .. Wells Fargo has been using the test version to handle authentication on several parts of its online banking site, Barco said. Liberty makes sure a customer signed on to the online banking system, for example, can get to the bill payment system or the brokerage system without having to log in to each one. .. snip .. ==============
above article references liberty http://www.projectliberty.org/home.html being based on the security assertion markup language http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/ last week i ran across somebody using SAML ... to effectively re-implement Kerberos ... but in place of kerberos tickets there were these packets of SAML formated information. Somewhat related is the Security Services TC glossary ... which includes references to the federated/merged security glossary on the garlic web pages: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/docs/draft-sstc-hodges-glossary-01.html slightly releated Kerberos reference: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#50 Origin of Kerberos the SAML webpage also references the AAA series of RFCs. Click on http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm and in the "RFCs sorted by" section, click on "Term (term->RFCs)". and scroll down to: Authentication, Authorization and Accounting see also accounting , authentication , authorization 3127 2989 2977 2906 2905 2904 2903 -- Internet trivia, 20th anv: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
