Monday May 07, 2007
Monday May 07, 2007
OpenID at Sun
This is what I've been working on for the last (many) weeks:
Sun is deploying an OpenID enabled Identity Provider (OP in OpenID jargon) for its employees. Any Sun employee will be able to create an OpenID identifier and use it with OpenID enabled relying parties (RP).
Our primary objective is to figure out adequate uses of OpenID in the enterprise context. As SAML and Liberty supporters we know OpenID (1.1) is addressing a different market when it comes to delegated authentication. Its lack of trust establishment between the IdP and the RP is, in my opinion, one of the challenge OpenID is facing in a B2B scenario. By placing the IdP within Sun's DNS and controlling the OpenID identifier format we inject some of that trust in the authentication process. Consider the scenario where a company that does business with Sun offers a discount to Sun employees. In order for me to have access to the employee discount pages at their web site, Company A, in addition to my identity needs to know that I am indeed a Sun employee. I think combining OpenID and a certain for of trust of the IdP is ideal for that kind of scenario.
Our OpenID deployment (1.1 & Simple Reg.) is based on the module that was recently written by Paul Bryan as part of our open source effort OpenSSO. In my next blogs, I'll be posting a lot of tips and howtos directly related to this deployment.
Posted at 09:55AM May 07, 2007 by Hubert Le Van Gong in Identity | Comments[1]
