Liberty Intros Advanced Client

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Liberty Alliance, the global identity consortium working to build a more trusted Internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide, today announced the release of the Advanced Client specifications designed to allow enterprise users and consumers to manage identity information on devices such as cameras, handhelds, laptops, printers, and televisions. The Advanced Client is a set of specifications and technologies that leverage the proven interoperability, security and privacy capabilities of Liberty Federation and Liberty Web Services to allow users to conduct a wide range of new identity-based transactions from any device.

The Advanced Client is part of Liberty’s roadmap to deliver an end-to-end digital identity management framework that provides enterprise users and consumers with increased identity management functionality across all networks and devices. The set of platform independent specifications were developed to extend identity management capabilities such as single sign-on, access to Web Services, stronger authentication and user-controlled provisioning to client devices. The Advanced Client will allow users to securely store identity data on a device and access and manage the information when the device is either connected to a network or offline.

“Liberty’s Advanced Client specifications mark a new era in how consumers will access identity-based applications and businesses and governments will deploy and manage new identity-based services,” said Roger Sullivan, president of the Liberty Alliance Management Board and vice president of Oracle Identity Management. “With today’s news, Liberty Alliance is closer to delivering an always available end-to-end identity framework where devices of all kinds are linked by federation and users are in better control of their identity information.”

The Advanced Client represents the third phase of Liberty’s ongoing work in delivering increased identity management functionality to client devices. In phase one Liberty Alliance defined the LECP (Liberty Enabled Client/Proxy) which was incorporated into SAML 2.0 and supports federation operations as the Enabled Client/Proxy. The Active Client is part of phase two and provides client-based Web services functionality, single sign-on into Liberty Web Services and support for any authentication model. Work on the Robust Client specifications, phase four, is underway. These phase four specifications will support trusted digital identity relationships, mobility modules and provide a platform for facilitating client-based universal strong authentication.

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