Re: Major Single Sign-On
Mar 30, 2004
I don't usually link to my own discussion list (though I have plans to one day include discussion contents in the OLDaily newsletter itself - if you have comments on this, I'd love to hear them), but CETIS's Scott Wilson offers an important clarification of a link I posted earlier, noting that proposed authentication systems are not, as I described them, federated authentication. Scott writes, "Wilbert logs on to the private intranet at Bangor University, and follows a link into the private intranet at Cardiff University. Normally, the Cardiff intranet would require a logon, but because the link from Bangor had inserted a 'token' into the URL, Cardiff instead asks Bangor to validate that this token is current, and refers to someone who has authenticated to Bangor's satisfaction." This makes it more similar to the eduSource DRM system than I had thought.
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