Phaos Releases Liberty Identity Toolkit

By Richard Karpinski, INW
iApplianceWeb
(10/26/02, 02:27:36 AM EDT)

Phaos Technology iNC. has just released a toolkit that lets developers build applications based on the digital identity specifications of the Liberty Alliance.

Liberty is a multi-vendor consortium building federated identity management and single sign-on specifications. The group released its first specifications earlier this year.

The Phaos Liberty Toolkit supports Liberty's sign-on authentication and authorization specifications. The Java-based toolkit lets developers build single sign-on support into apps, and supports the consolidation of multiple enterprise authentication schemes via new XML-based Web services architectures. The toolkit also supports XML digital signatures and XML encryption.

Phaos released a software development kit earlier this year for Liberty. The new toolkit expands on that earlier release with a fully integrated security library, the vendor said.

Phaos also announced today the release of the Phaos XML Toolkit 2.0, a Java toolkit for building secure XML-based apps, as well as Phaos SAML 1.0, which provides a protocol to communicate assertions of an entity's security attributes, authentication, and authorization.

Phaos Liberty Toolkit, Phaos XML 2.0 and Phaos SAML 1.0 are available today.

Liberty Toolkit developer licenses are $10,000 and run-time licenses are $15,000 per CPU. Other toolkits are priced at $3,000-$4,000 for developer licenses and between $3,000-$4,000 per run-time CPU.

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