Nick Taylor on identity, privacy, the environment, and other assorted rants.

Posts from December 2009

SAML Federation for dummies

A couple of times recently I’ve had to explain SAML-based federation to people whose areas of expertise lie outside identity and security. After repeatedly drawing things in different ways on a whiteboard, I found myself working towards a real-world analogy.
It’s a bit tortured, and not exactly representative of the inner workings of SAML, but it [...]