OpenID = Authentication + Attribute Exchange ++
March 23rd, 2007
Marc Canter leapt to OpenID’s defense against Michal Migurski’s criticism.
…there are those who think we DON’T need anything more than simple single sign-on. In fact I had lunch with the CEO of SixApart (Barak Berkowitz) who said Brad Fitzpatrick is fairly skeptical of anything beyond his original simple scenario.
But, says Canter, “we need the attribute exchange to make this thing really take off.”
Then all the skeptics will realize that the authentication layer HAD to come first - but was just a first step. Along the way we’ll figure out standards for user intrerface and usage flow.
But for now - the critics are right - OpenID as it stands right now is just authentication and that ain’t gonna rock nobodies world - except for Bard Fitzpatrick’s world - I guess.
Leveraging CAS with Luminis
March 30th, 2006
From NoSheep.net’s article:
In SunGard Higher Education’s Luminis product one of the many add-on packages you can install is CAS support. CAS is an acronym for Central Authentication Service. This WebISO solution is one of the most common in higher education. CAS was created originally by Yale, but ongoing support has been taken over by JA-SIG. When the CAS package is installed in Luminis, it makes Luminis act as a CAS authentication provider. Coupled with this built-in Luminis support, we use a CAS library called phpCAS that adds to the simplicity of deploying this within our environment.
Time and again, CAS has been proven an effective and simple way for us to quickly drop authentication ability into our homegrown PHP applications. Once a function was developed, this was easily reused across dozens of applications within a few short months. The ease of deployment made it easy to convince various developers to switch from custom authentication schemes.
He then goes on to provide example code of how CAS deployed through Luminis can be leveraged with PHP.