Federation Identity Management

This post features federation identity management or identity federation definitions.

Federation Roles

The identity provider holds all of the identities and generate a token for known users.

The relying party (RP) consumes the tokens, and could be a service provider.

Federation Models

Federation models:

  • Trusted-third party
  • Web-of-trust

In the trusted third-party model, the identity provider is a trusted third party, and the relying parties are each member organization within the federation.

In the web-of-trust model the identity provider is each member of the federation, meaning that they provision identities for each of their users, and they are also often the relying parties who provide services.

List of Identity Federation Definitions

Identity federation definitions featured on this post:

  • WS-Federation

WS-Federation

WS-Federation (Web Service Federation), for authentication. HTTP or HTTPS protocol.

It is a pure federation protocol.

SAML

SAML may be also used for identity federation.

You can read this post about SAML.

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