General · 2008-04-24

Federation in the diminutive

The fedlet — it has arrived! Actually, it’s hard to keep things a total surprise when you open-source it all, but Daniel Raskin has finally taken the wraps off the fedlet for real. Check out his video: He demonstrates, during the course of a single Guns ‘N’ Roses tune, just how brain-dead easy it is to create a fedlet for a SAML2 relying party and get it working correctly on the other side.

As Scott Cantor observed in the recent Project Concordia workshop, we’re getting to the point where browser-based single sign-on Just Works. Now it’s going faster, and faster, and faster… (Hey, don’t some G’n’R tunes do that?)