IMNSHO, better go Liberty up front and have the confidence that you
do not need to upgrade later - or run two parallel systems. The Liberty
(or SAML 2.0) system is comprehensive and addresses every use case
anyone has thought so far. The percieved complexity is really an
implementation issue and not underlying property of the spec. Since
we provide an implementation, the "complexity" is not customer problem.
Scott Cantor and Peter Williams said on 5.11.2010 on wsf-dev@lists.openliberty.org
Peter Williams said:
I'm guessing that, in the culture that admires dumb clients, that
what holds ECP (and cardspace) back is the inability to convince server
vendors to commoditize this role for a browser.
That, among other things, like the obsession with reinventing all
things XML in a misguided effort to dumb down security technologies so
that the wrong people can implement them. -- Scott
What is it?
mod_auth_saml: An Apache httpd auth module that does SAML SSO. No programming,
just configure Apache, see receipe.
Web Master - you need this because it is a config only install, no programming.
SSO servlet and Java libzxidjni.so: A Java JNI extension that
wraps libzxid. Also supplied: zxidsrvlet.java that implements SP SSO as servlet,
directly integrateable with existing application under servlet engine, e.g. Tomcat.
php_zxid: A PHP extension that wraps libzxid. Also supplied: zxidhlo.php
that implements SP in mod_php environment.
Net::SAML: Perl module wrapping libzxid. Also zxidhlo.pl example, implementing
SP in mod_perl environment, is supplied.
zxididp: Full featured Identity Provider and Discovery Service, as deployed
by ZXIDP.org
libzxid C library for SAML 2.0 federated Single Sign-On (SSO) and ID-WSF Web
Services. Many other language bindings are supported through SWIG.
IdM Hacker - you need this because it supports all relevant protocols, you will
study it and you will contribute patches (thanks).
Status
0.82 (20110310) is 1.0 Release Candidate. As of 0.41 (20091120) the package has been mature for
doing SSO and other SP related tasks. It also supports perl and
mod_perl by way of Net::SAML module, PHP5 (and php4) using
php_zxid.so, as well as Java using libzxidjni.so. The Java
support includes SSO servlet to be used with Tomcat or other
application server.
mod_auth_saml is fully production grade and can be used to implement
SSO to Apach httpd just by configuring (no programming needed).
zxididp, including ID-WSF Discovery, is beta grade.
ID-WSF 2.0 WSC and WSP roles are release candidate grade.
General SAML 2.0 encoding and decoding of messages in C
Net::SAML perl module that gives access to the C functionality
php_zxid.so extension for php5 (and php4) roughly equal to Net::SAML
libzxidjni.so extension for Java roughly equal to Net::SAML
zxidsrvlet.class for Tomcat enviroment, giving SSO
SAML 2.0 metadata handling and support for Well Known Location method
Specific logic for Single Sign-On and Federation using artifact, post, and simplesign-post profiles
Single logout, defederation, and NameID management
Some session management and ability to handle discovery bootstrap, ability to start Java HttpSession, ability to pass information from SSO to WSC.
SP role as a CGI written in C, perl under mod_perl and CGI, php under mod_php, Java / Tomcat, shell script CGI, and as Apache httpd auth module (mod_auth_saml)
IdP role written in C
Command line WSC testing tool (zxcall)
ID-WSF 2.0 Discovery WSC role in C, perl, php, and Java
ID-WSF 2.0 Discovery Service (WSP) role in C
General ID-WSF 2.0 WSC role in C, perl, php, and Java
General ID-WSF 2.0 WSP role in C, perl, php, and Java
Encoders and decoders for SAML 2.0 (most mature), SAML 1.1, Liberty ID-FF 1.2, Liberty ID-WSF 1.1, Liberty ID-WSF 2.0, XACML 2.0, and many more.
XACML 2.0 PEP role in C, perl, php, and Java
XACML 2.0 PDP role in C, but without XACML rule evaluation engine (i.e. we use proprietary rules)
ZXID is the Refecence Implementation of the Core Security Architecture of TAS3.
ZXID aims at providing open source implementation of the Internet of Subjects Personal Data Store (IoS-PDS).
ZXID supports strong authentication using Yubikey USB token from Yubico.
[Bertolino12] A. Bertolino, et al.: "Enhancing Service Federation Trustworthiness through Online Testing", IEEE Computer, January 2012 (vol. 45 no. 1) pp. 66-72, 2012. DOI
Run-time dependencies
ZXID uses OpenSSL for all of its crypto (your distro should already have this).
ZXID uses libcurl as HTTP(S) client (your distro should already have this).
ZXID uses zlib for compression (your distro should already have this).
Full regeneration dependencies (usually not needed to compile ZXID)
ZXID uses Plaindoc to generate code (xsd2sg.pl) and documentation (pd2tex).
