Vula:

You should spend sometime and read about the CAS architecture [1] [2], proxy
authentication [3], and protocol [4], but here is a summary of CAS:

1. Web SSO; requires HTTP(S) communications
2. Similar to Kerberos; trusted 3rd party between users and applications
3. Uses one-time service tickets for application use; passed as query param
4. Uses ticket granting tickets for SSO session; stored as cookie
5. Provides for app-to-app authentication via proxy authentication
6. Server is Java-based
7. Clients supported in multiple environments / languages

Anyhow, spend some time reading the following references; they should answer
your questions.

A-

References:

[1] http://www.jasig.org/cas/cas1-architecture
[2] http://www.jasig.org/cas/cas2-architecture
[3] http://www.jasig.org/cas/proxy-authentication
[4] http://www.jasig.org/cas/protocol
[5] http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASUM/Home

On 3/9/09 6:39 PM, "vula" <[email protected]> wrote:

> How does SSO solutions combines in groups and in what of those groups CAS
> belongs?
> 
> To elaborate, I read here
> (http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200205/se_05_28_02a.html) that there
> are two types of SSO, Web based and Non-Web based, in some White papers about
> SSO (Planing for SSO, Rion Dutta) I read that there are two approaches to SSO,
> tokens and proxies so if we group in this way there are "token-based" and
> "proxie-based" SSO, than I read that there are Kerberos based, Smart card
> based... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_sign-on)
> 
> All this is rather confusing to me, Kerberos, Smart card, tokens, proxies,
> Web, Non-Web, cookie-based, ESSO, is there a way that this can be organized,
> for example, we say, from web point of view there are 1. Web based, 2. Non-Web
> based, whom this point ... there are 1... 2...? And in which of these groups
> CAS belongs, and other SSO solutions?
> 
> p.s. Sorry if my English grammar is not so great but I think that you will get
> my point.

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