Access to Web Services

Interested in making one login name and password work with your various websites? Yes, it’s single sign-on and more! Access your favourite website and sit back as information about you gets transparently sent to the site. Don’t like that? Then tell the service that knows about you about what information to release. Don’t want the website to know your name? Then configure a pseudonym. Aren’t affiliated with an institution? Create your own ID! There are a number of technologies that enable this kind of functionality today: web single sign-on, federated access, SAML, OpenID, InfoCards, Shibboleth, Higgins. This presentation will sort through these and present how they might be applied to the University community web access experience.
Co-presenters: Mike Wiseman, Matt Wilks, Pete St. Onge