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.