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Sun releases open-source Liberty tool
News Sun Microsystems on Wednesday unveiled a new open-source software development tool designed to help businesses start testing and building online identification systems using the new Liberty Alliance standard.
[September 19, 2002, 13:49]
Liberty Alliance and Passport still poles apart
News The Liberty Alliance hopes to create a standard way for computer users to establish their identities on the Internet, through either passwords or more sophisticated authentication technology. Microsoft would like to guarantee interoperability...
[February 20, 2002, 9:06]
Liberty - is usability compatible with security?
News Not in itself a product or a service, Liberty is a specification which services will use to communicate authentication information.the Liberty specification is based on another newly released standard, the Security Assertion Markup Language (see...
[July 16, 2002, 14:17]
Liberty Alliance adds tech muscle
News Liberty's "single sign-on" standard is based on another newly released standard, the Security Assertion Markup Language. The Liberty Alliance Project added a new member on Wednesday, boosting its efforts to establish an online authentication plan...
[August 29, 2002, 10:01]
Novell emphasises open-source commitment
News The new product, formerly code-named Saturn, will allow a person to log once onto multiple Web sites that adhere to the Liberty standard. The company is offering an early version of its eDirectory that uses the Liberty Alliance specification for...
[April 16, 2003, 10:19]
Microsoft extends ID management
News However, to share identity between sites on the Web and between servers inside a company only three options currently exist: the security assertion markup language (SAML) 1.1, the WS-Security standard or the Liberty Alliance's standard, which has...
[May 25, 2004, 8:45]
Financial customers get Liberty software
News Hub ID previously used a proprietary standard called Cooked URL, but Communicator decided to move to Liberty, which is based on the open Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) standard. A computer sign-on system used by many top financial...
[February 3, 2003, 10:57]
Oracle proposes safe-data standards
News Microsoft may not support it because the Oracle proposal seems biased towards the Liberty Alliance and the SAML standard for exchanging authentication and authorisation data, which Microsoft has never officially backed, Penn said.
[November 30, 2006, 8:06]
Microsoft plans new Web services push
News Also, Microsoft's TrustBridge plan doesn't immediately address the Liberty Alliance Project, which also seeks to establish a standard method for online identification. Microsoft rival Sun Microsystems is a major backer of the Liberty Alliance.
[June 6, 2002, 9:42]
The folly of single sign-on
News Announced shortly after Passport's debut, the Liberty Alliance Project was supposed to be an alternative standard for single sign-on technology. Just because Liberty Alliance Project's single sign-on technology is an open standard doesn't make me...
[June 3, 2005, 13:00]
Sun 'won't abandon' open-source lobby
News Sun and Microsoft now have a way to work together to prevent schisms such as the fight over digital identity and authentication standards with Passport from Microsoft or Liberty, from Sun and several partners.
[April 7, 2004, 8:45]
Comdex 2001: Nokia touts new phone standards group
News In addition, the consortium plans to add features to authenticate phone users, and the leading candidate is the Liberty Alliance Project initiated by Sun, Pertti Korhonen, senior vice president of Nokia mobile software, said at a news conference...
[November 13, 2001, 10:04]
Sun rises on open DRM
News And Schwartz believes partners will come, as they did when Sun launched the Liberty Alliance for simplifying the process of logging on to multiple servers. With Liberty, "we clearly brought a tidal wave of support across the industry.
[August 22, 2005, 9:10]
Liberty-Passport wars may end as products emerge
News At the launch of the first specifications from the Liberty Alliance on Monday, seven companies promised products and services which would use the standard for online authentication. Liberty members' subscribers could help Liberty catch up on...
[July 16, 2002, 14:46]
Liberty Alliance expands membership
News The Liberty Alliance Project seeks to establish a standard method for online identifications, so a computer user can log on to a Web site once, then have other sites recognise that user as authenticated.
[May 29, 2002, 12:05]
Liberty Alliance releases ID spec guidelines
News The Liberty Alliance, a consortium that aims to develop and promote an open standard for federated network identities, launched guidelines on Wednesday to help users of Liberty-enabled identity management systems keep within the European law.
[April 14, 2005, 15:50]
Liberty Alliance unveiling spec
News Sun would like to see Liberty grow from being a multi-company collaboration to a formal standard endorsed by the World Wide Web Consortium, said Jonathan Schwartz, who took over Sun's software business on 1 July.
[July 10, 2002, 16:24]
Sun unveils Liberty-spec server software
News Sun released software that supports new technology by the Liberty Alliance Project, which on Monday released an online identification standard that lets people surf the Web without having to constantly re-enter passwords, names and other data at...
[July 17, 2002, 10:17]
Sun releases Liberty-enabled software
News The Liberty Alliance Project is working on a software standard that permits "single sign-on", in which a person who logs on to one Web site doesn't have to re-enter a username and password for an affiliated site.
[January 13, 2003, 7:50]
Yahoo faces Flickr rebellion
Talkback What happened to the liberty alliance project, shouldn't all those that are opposed to MS be using the LA login, the days of propriety login are soon to end, where is that standard anyway.
[August 30, 2005, 18:50]
