Liberty Alliance Project
Liberty Alliance Project ( LAP ) was a business initiative (consisting of 150 companies , non-profit organizations and authorities from the mobile commerce and security industry). Her goal was to develop cross- industry platforms and standards (especially in the area of mobile applications) for global transaction security on the Internet, to clarify technical and organizational questions regarding registration, certification and interoperability , and to raise public awareness of the needs of secure mobile trading to accomplish.
For the development and existence of secure and trustworthy digital ecosystems (such as the Internet), concepts of identity and connections between individual identities were essential. In this context, the Liberty Alliance (initially also called Project Liberty) describes specifications as the basis for managing identities in the area of networked structures as well as communication protocols for their use, for example in web services.
The project was initiated in 2001 by Sun Microsystems as a competitor to Microsoft Passport . The project received broad support and well-known companies such as American Express , IBM , Intel and Oracle are working on it. The aim was to develop a system for single sign-on with the help of open standards .
While Microsoft's Passport System provides a central server that administers all user and security information, Project Liberty is based on a regulated exchange of data between basically equal user accounts on different computers.
At the beginning of 2005 a draft for version 2 of the ID web service was presented. The most important innovation was the support of the second version of the SAML standard . The initiative ended in 2009.