Liberty Alliance revs Web standard

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

Liberty Alliance revs Web standard 
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By Martin LaMonica 
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
April 15, 2003, 2:48 PM PT

The Liberty Alliance on Tuesday said it intends to update its standard for
simplifying the process of logging on to multiple Web sites.  The Liberty
Alliance Project is a consortium of companies working on a standard way
for a person to enter a name and password once to connect securely to
several Web sites. Sun Microsystems launched the Liberty project in 2001
to offer an alternative to Microsoft's Passport system for authenticating
a person's identity over the Web. The Liberty Alliance now has 160
members.

At the RSA Conference 2003 Tuesday, the Liberty Alliance detailed version
2.0 of the standard. Members of the consortium also demonstrated a single
sign-in to multiple Web sites using software that is compatible with the
current version of the Liberty standard, version 1.1.

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