Authentic
What is this ?
Authentic is a Liberty Alliance identity provider aiming to address a broad range of needs, from simple to complex setups. It provides Single Sign-on (SSO), Single Logout (SLO) and attribute exchange. It is highly and easily customisable.
Its Liberty conformance relies on Lasso, a free (GNU GPL) implementation of the Liberty Alliance certified by the consortium in may 2005. Authentic implements every feature required by the Identity Provider Conformance Matrix.
Authentic is commonly run inside Apache web server. It is released under the GNU GPL license.
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Features
- Liberty Alliance conformance: support of ID-FF 1.2, ID-WSF 1.1 (2.0 work in progress) and SAML 2.0;
- Support of different users databases: LDAP V3 (Active Directoy), Postgresql, MySQL;
- Proxy: Authentic can behave as a proxy, redirecting service providers requests towards other identity providers;
- Attribute sharing: using ID-WSF Personal Profile Authentic allows identity attribute sharing;
- Metadata creation and exchange: Authentic automatically creates its own metadata file and and integrates easily Service Providers ones, the exchange can't be easier;
- Logs and Audit : Logs are displayed within the administration interface. They deliver informations about different types of events.
Performances
The components Authentic relies on are fast and Authentic doesn't slow things down. It supports important workload. A basic benchmark using autobench gives a result ranging from 300 to 350 processed requests by second on a simple laptop.
Easy Administration
Authentic has a nice and useful web administrative interface.
This interface allow the administrator to deal with a lot of parameters, making Authentic able to adapt to different needs without any code change.