Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), developed by the Security Services Technical Committee of OASIS, is an XML-based framework for communicating user authentication, entitlement and attribute information. SAML allows business entities to make assertions regarding the identity, attributes, and entitlements of a subject (an entity that is often a human user) to other entities, such as a partner company or another enterprise.
The module application.SAML is also:
- A set of XML-based protocol messages
- A set of protocol message bindings
- A set of profiles (utilizing all of the above)
Identity Provider (IdP) is a system that creates, maintains, and manages identity information for principals (users, services, or systems), and provides principal authentication to other service providers (applications) within a federation...
