SAML and single sign-on
How SAML lets one company login open many applications: identity providers and service providers, assertions, the redirect and POST bindings, SP- and IdP-initiated flows, metadata and certificates, and how SAML compares with OpenID Connect.
CodexBash, , 5 min read
In most companies you sign in once in the morning and then open the HR portal, the expenses tool and the wiki without typing your password again. That is single sign-on, and in the enterprise world it is very often powered by SAML. It is older and wordier than OpenID Connect, but it is everywhere in business software, so anyone building applications for companies will be asked to support it. This article explains how it works.
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