New WSO2 Identity Solution feature-rich with OpenID

WSO2 Identity Solution @wso2is_version@ Release Note

08 April, 2008

The WSO2 Identity Solution, which enables LAMP and Java websites to provide strong authentication based on the new interoperable Microsoft CardSpace technology, released version 1.5 today. This new release includes OpenID and OpenID Information Cards, further enhancing the WSO2 Identity Solution to cater to a wider audience for web based authentication. OpenID is a key feature in decentralizing single sign-on, much favored by many users.

The WSO2 Identity Solution is built on the open standards Security Assertion Mark-up Language (SAML) and WS-Trust. This version supports SAML version 2.0 in addition to 1.1 which was available in the previous version of the WSO2 Identity Solution.

WSO2's open source security offering features an easy-to-use Identity Provider that is controlled by a simple Web-based management console and supports interoperability with multiple vendors' CardSpace components. This includes those provided by Microsoft .NET.

The WSO2 Identity Solution also works with current enterprise identity directories, such as those based on the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and Microsoft Active Directory, allowing them to leverage their existing infrastructure. In addition to the Identity Provider the WSO2 Identity Solution provides a Relying Party Component Set which plugs into the most common Web servers to add support for CardSpace authentication and now OpenID.

New features in version 1.5

OpenID Provider and relying party component support
OpenID information cards based on user name-token credential and self issued credential
SAML 2.0 support

Other Key Features

Identity provider
- Simple management console
- Ability to connect to custom user stores (LDAP/Microsoft ActiveDirectory, JDBC)
- Built in user store
- Support for the CardSpace default claim set
- Support for custom claim dialects and claims types
- Statistics/reporting/audit trail
- Ability to revoke information cards
- Issues information cards based on username-token credential and self issued credential
Apache HTTPD relying party module - mod_cspace

CardSpace authentication support for static web content
Support for any server side scripting language supported by Apache2
Easy integration interface for developers
Support for content management frameworks such as Drupal, MediaWiki

Java Servlet Filter relying party component

Provides an intuitive plug-in for J2EE web application developers to enable CardSpace authentication
Supports multi-valued claims
Supports a set of simple operation modes

Reporting Problems

Issues can be reported using the public JIRA available at https://wso2.org/jira/browse/IDENTITY

Contact us

WSO2 Identity Solution developers can be contacted via mailing lists:
For Users: identity-user@wso2.org
For Developers:identity-dev@wso2.org
For details on subscriptions see http://www.wso2.org/projects/solutions/identity#mail

Alternatively, questions can also be raised in the forums:
http://www.wso2.org/forum/308

For more information on WSO2 Identity Solution, visit the WSO2 Oxygen Tank

Thank you for your interest in WSO2 Identity Solution

-The WSO2 Identity Solution Development Team