OK... here's my prediction for the new year and the oncoming... Identity Management would be the CORE for WEB 2.0-The next generation Web. Having said that I thought that it would be good to list out a few open source Identity Management products that are out there that one would need to keep a keen eye on...
PS: Do feel free to add to this list by leaving your comments.
UPDATE: another comprehensive list at http://safehaus.org/map/nov05.html. Link Courtesy : Shekhar Jha UPDATE 2: Shekar Jha has also compiled a very nice list of Identity & Access Management vendors. boy!! how could I have missed that one ?
- Sun Interoperability Prototype for Liberty : Interoperability Prototype for Liberty is the first open-source implementation of the Liberty Alliance Version 1.0 specification based on Java technology. IPL consists of sample Java source code libraries, implementing the Liberty version 1.0 specification, and is not designed for commercial deployment. IPL is licensed as open source under the Sun Microsystems Open Source License.
- SourceID : Open Source Federated Identity Management Liberty Alliance, SAML, and WS-Federation. Royalty free commercial use if used on fewer than 100 computers per company
- Shibboleth : Shibboleth is developing architectures, policy structures, practical technologies, and an open source implementation to support inter-institutional sharing of web resources subject to access controls. Key concepts within Shibboleth include: Federated Administration, Access Control Based On Attributes, Active Management of Privacy and used OpenSAML.
- OpenSAML : OpenSAML is a set of open source Java and C++ libraries that are fully consistent with the SAML 1.0 and 1.1 CR specifications.
- Yale CAS : The Central Authentication Server (CAS) is designed as a standalone web application. It is currently implemented as several Java servlets and runs through a HTTPS server.
- Atlassian Seraph : Seraph is a very simple, pluggable J2EE web application security framework.
- OpenSPML : The toolkit offers an easy-to-use interface for configuring, issuing and interpreting standards-compliant provisioning requests across diverse identity infrastructures.
- Novell Nsure UDDI Server : Nsure is a UDDI 2.0 registry built on Directory Services technology. It offers a secure access to the registry contents (authentication and authorization), unified account management, and distribution of the registry by leveraging Directory Services. It works with any LDAP(V3) based directory backend.
- OpenPrivacy : A reference implementation of the Reputation Management Framework (RMF). OpenPrivacy's core project is designed to ease the process of creating community with reputation enhanced pseudonymous entities. The RMF is primarily a set of four interfaces: Nym Manager, Communications Manager, Storage Manager and Reputation Calculation Engine (RCE).
- NSF Middleware Initiative : NMI-EDIT: Identity and Access Management for Collaborative Applications.
- jSai : jSai (pronounced "Jay-Say") is iPOV's home grown Servlet Authentication Implementation. jSai is implemented completely using J2SE + Servlet technology; no J2EE "Application Server" needed. jSai supports basic JDBC and XML backed user stores, as well as an LDAP user store. jSai provides developers with the application level security they want and need for small and medium size web applications; avoiding the complex setup in other security implementations that are aimed at large "enterprise" applications.
- Acegi Security System for Spring : Comprehensive security services for The Spring Framework.
- Gabriel : Gabriel is a security framework for Java. By using access control lists and permissions, Gabriel enables components to check access to actions. On top of that Gabriel protects methods like EJB does but without the overhead. It distinguishes itself from other frameworks by the ease of use with a small API and by mapping method access to permissions instead of persons. This way the same permissions can be used to protect method access and to check which GUI elements to show based on user permissions.
- JOSSO : JOSSO, or Java Open Single Sign-On, is an open source J2EE-based SSO infrastructure aimed to provide a solution for centralized platform neutral user authentication. The Pluggable framework allows to implement and combine multiple authentication schemes with credential stores.
- Kasai : The goal of Kasai is to provide a simple-to-use-yet-powerful security environment for multi-user applications. Unlike JAAS, Kasai provides a much higher security abstraction. Additionally, Kasai includes a very powerful and performing auditing system that records all users activity on a relational database.
- JPAM : JPAM is a Java-PAM bridge. PAM, or Pluggable Authentication Modules, is a standard security architecture used on Unix, Linux and Mac OS X systems. JPAM permits the use of PAM authentication facilities by Java applications running on those platforms.
- CAS Generic Handler : CAS Generic Handler is a plugin giving CAS (Central Authentication Service) the ability to authenticate users with different methods (LDAP, database, files, NIS, ...).
- SunXACML : This project provides complete support for all the mandatory features of XACML as well as a number of optional features. Specifically, there is full support for parsing both policy and request/response documents, determining applicability of policies, and evaluating requests against policies. All of the standard attribute types, functions, and combining algorithms are supported, and there are APIs for adding new functionality as needed. There are also APIs for writing new retrieval mechanisms used for finding things like policies and attributes.
- Shaj : Shaj (Simple Host Authentication for Java) is a simple library that allows your Java app to verify users with the underlying operating system. Shaj also allows you to check group membership. Shaj is not a competitor for full featured authentication API's but rather a complimentary way to piggyback on system accounts on any platforms. Shaj is used in FishEye for local account authentication, hence it is in use on most flavours of Windows and *NIX.
- Open Web SSO : The Open Web SSO project provides core identity services to facilitate the implementation of transparent single sign on as an infrastructure security component. The goal of Open Web SSO project is to provide an extensible implementation of identity services infrastructure that will facilitate single sign on for web applications hosted on web and application serversThis project is based on the code base of Sun Java(tm) System Access Manager product.
- Cosign : Support Global Logout by visiting a link Support GSSAPI authentication Written in C and support MS ISAPI (IIS), Apache 1.3/2.0, Servlet and Java/J2EE
Links Courtesy: Carlos E. Perez