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A Gentle Introduction to SAML
The SAML spec is an absolute beast. We've each read it multiple times. Here's a simpler explanation.
Introducing myself to random strangers – as one does at such events – I soon met a true hacker, a dyed-in-the-wool computer fanatic, the kind of person who’d have worked as a software engineer before it was cool. SAML (or Security Assertion Markup Language), defines a flexible set of rules for exchanging security-related messages in XML. Unless you find SAML personally interesting or have some professional reason to investigate deeply, I do not recommend trying to implement SAML-based login yourself.
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