Explains the various SAML and WS-Federation profiles using PowerPoint's animation capabilities and also includes a suggestions on when to use which profile and how to determine the one to use.
- Travis Spencer
How to export a cert (including the private key) from a Java key store (JKS file) and convert it to a PFX file that can be imported into the Windows Certificate Store. Painful but works.
- Travis Spencer
Discusses four candidate architectures and shows the progression of thought in arriving at the two that are actually viable ways of creating a centralized identity management system that uses a Identity Provider STS (IP-STS) at its core.
- Travis Spencer
Shows how to rename a user account using the new .NET 3.5 API, System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement. It also shows how to access a DirectoryEntry object given a new, higher-level UserPrincipal object. (Note: the link is to the last post in the thread.)
- Travis Spencer
The Sustainability Consortium is the initiative that Wal-Mart's funding seeded and that will create a scientifically sound system for measuring the environmental and social impacts of a product from its cradle to its grave.
- Travis Spencer
Points out that Firefox doesn't use the certificate store of the OS but, rather, has its own. The blog post also explains how to add a cert to the trusted authorities store of Firefox.
- Travis Spencer