Authentication & Authorization

SAML

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Overview

An XML-based standard for securely exchanging authentication information between organizations.

Details

Short for Security Assertion Markup Language. An XML-based standard for securely exchanging authentication and attribute information. It works by exchanging documents called assertions between an IdP (the identity provider) and an SP (the service provider), and has been used for enterprise SSO since before OAuth/OIDC.

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