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
Copyright 2008 WSO2 Inc.