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SAML
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ALSO CALLED: Security Assertion Markup Language and Security Access Markup Language
DEFINITION: SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is an Extensible Markup Language ( XML) standard that allows a user to log on once for affiliated but separate Web sites. SAML is designed for business-to-business( B2B) and business-to-consumer ( B2C) transactions. SAML
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Federated Identity in IPTV Environments
| sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
WHITE PAPER:
This white paper discusses the standards that apply to IPTV security environments and how they provide a foundation for deploying secure, user-friendly authentication services.
Posted: 10 Sep 2007 | Published: 01 Feb 2007
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SAML DEFINITION (continued):
specifies three components: assertions, protocol, and binding. There are three assertions: authentication, attribute, and authorization. Authenticationassertion validates the user's identity. Attribute assertion contains specific information about the user. And authorization assertion identifies what the user is authorized to do. Protocol defines how SAML asks for and receives assertions. Bindingdefines how SAML message exchanges are mapped to Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
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