Solving Identity Management in Modern Applications: Demystifying OAuth 2, OpenID Connect, and SAML 2

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Y. Wilson, A. HingnikarSolving Identity Management in Modern Applicationshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8261-8_7

7. SAML 2

Yvonne Wilson¹   and Abhishek Hingnikar²

(1)

San Francisco, CA, USA

(2)

London, UK

 

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.

—George MacDonald, from The Marquis of Lossie (1877)

The Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2ⁱ is known for providing two important features, cross-domain single sign-on (SSO) and identity federation. SAML 2 has been adopted in many enterprise environments because it enabled the enterprise to have applications used by employees, customers, and partners delegate user authentication to a centralized ...