[security-jc] Security news

["Phillip H. Griffin" <phil.griffin@asn-1.com>]

This from SANS NewsBites, November 13, 2002, Vol. 4, Num. 46,
NewsBites@sans.org

 --6 November 2002  OASIS Approves SAML v.1
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information
Standards (OASIS) has approved Security Assertion Markup Language
(SAML) v.1; the single sign-on standard would allow users to visit
multiple sites with one secure sign-on.
http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/websitemgmt/story/0,10801,75682,00.html
http://www.internetwk.com/story/INW20021106S0013
[Editor's Note (Murray): Perhaps it can be used that way but that is
not what it does.  It simply tags such data as user ID and password
so that it can be recognized across systems or applications without
further prior agreement.]