Technical Resources

Various organizations have established channels and provided tools or guidelines to help in e-authentication related enquiries and issues.

• OASIS Technical Committees (Security)
  
  ASIS develops security standards needed in e-business and Web services applications. Members define foundational as well as application-level specifications.
  
  
• The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
  
  The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is dedicated to finding and fighting the causes of insecure software
  
  
• OpenID
  
  OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity
  
  
• OpenSAML - an Open Source Security Assertion Markup Language implementation
  
  OpenSAML is an open source toolkit for implementing solutions using the SAML specifications. It is available for Java (1.4+) and C++ applications.
  
  
• OpenSSO
  
  The Open Web SSO project (OpenSSO) provides core identity services to simplify the implementation of transparent single sign-on (SSO) as a security component in a network infrastructure. OpenSSO provides the foundation for integrating diverse web applications that might typically operate against a disparate set of identity repositories and is hosted on a variety of platforms such as web and application servers.