I’m famous!  Well, almost.  My first article on Virtual Federation has been published over at the Sun Developer Network.  Many thanks to Marina Sum for all her hard work and to Pat Patterson for his support and kind words.
This first article focuses on the business value and high-level architecture of OpenSSO’s virtual federation component, while […]

Dr. Michael Geist writes that the Ontario Legislature just passed Bill-85.  HUH?  How come this is so media-silent?
Didn’t anyone stop to take clues from the US about the broadly-publicized RFID password vulnerabilities?  As a security guy, I’m a little shocked.  And a lot appalled.

I’ve always liked mind maps for brainstorming difficult concepts.  I find they are a great way of logically expressing, formulating and grouping thoughts that are hard to articulate.

Here’s a great detailed deployment example for something I’ve been working with a lot lately:  SAML v2 Using Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0

pat managed to get opensso up and running on amazon ec2!  details here.

download & run websynergy
scp opensso.war to glassfish autodeploy dir (on ec2)
configure as you like - in this case, an IDP and a fedlet
test w/ federation validator
test w/ fedlet sso