Simo Sorce - Federated Identity Providers: the Ipsilon project
Channel: RedHatCzech
Date: 2015-02-06

The presentation will introduce the concept of Identity Federation, when it is
used, when it is appropriate and what protocols are used for Federation.

Protocols like SAML, OpenId 1.0, OpenId Connect, Persona, etc.. will be briefly
introduced and explained at a high level.

In the context of Identity Providers I will introduce the Ipsilon project, how
it works, where it comes from and the merger with FedOAuth, the current tool
used for Federation in the Fedora Infrastructure.

The presentation will end up with the first use case for Ipsilon as a tool in
Fedora Infrastructure, how it is deployed there and what feature are used