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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 3:06 AM

Federation and Bearer Tokens

The latest WS-Trust spec (yet to be ratified by OASIS) introduces a concept called Bearer Tokens. This basically is a keyless token that a client requests from an STS (Security Token Service). The only purpose this token serves is to provide more information
Posted by govindr | 1 Comments
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 5:05 PM

Re-Serialize SAML token

In a Federation Scenario a client might want to access the services by using a SAML token that was issued to it by a STS. The service in turn might have to call other services (like a intermediary) to fulfill the request. When calling the backend service
Posted by govindr | 19 Comments
Attachment(s): ReSerializeSaml.zip
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 3:38 PM

Federation

As you are moving to Web Services world one of the buzz words that you will hear time and again is "Federation". This is simply a security scenario that involves 3 parties to secure a Message. The 3 parties in the scenario are, Client Security Token Service
Posted by govindr | 7 Comments
 
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