Sun Microsystems will release new software Monday that takes advantage of the Liberty technology for simplifying the process of signing on to multiple Web sites.
Sun's Identity Server 6.0 software product is generally available now, and later this quarter will be available bundled with Sun hardware, said John Barco, senior product marketing manager for the Sun Open Network Environment (Sun ONE) software suite.
The Liberty Alliance Project is working on a software standard that permits "single sign-on," in which a person who logs on to one Web site doesn't have to re-enter a username and password for an affiliated site. The technology is based on Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), which handles single sign-on chores, with enhancements for tasks such as setting up ways for two Web sites to register a single person.
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