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Central Authentication Service

CAS ? What is it?. CAS is an authentication system originally created by Yale University (circa 2000) to provide a trusted way for an application to authenticate a user. CAS became a JA-SIG project in December 2004. Currently at 3.2.1 release (Princeton is running 3.0.7) CAS does NOT provide Auth

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Central Authentication Service

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    1. Central Authentication Service

    2. CAS – What is it? CAS is an authentication system originally created by Yale University (circa 2000) to provide a trusted way for an application to authenticate a user. CAS became a JA-SIG project in December 2004. Currently at 3.2.1 release (Princeton is running 3.0.7) CAS does NOT provide Authorization services

    3. CAS – Why use it? Provides a consistent, secure, authoritative means of authentication for web applications Developers no longer need to roll their own authentication; individual sites no longer collect passwords Robust – in production at dozens of universities and commercial organizations and maintained by active user community (JA-SIG)

    4. How CAS works

    5. CAS Clients Available for many languages Java, .NET, PHP, Perl and many others Go to: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASC/Clients

    6. Authentication – The future CAS will be maintained for a minimum of three (3) years Newest server 3.2.x set to go live July 15, 2008 Support for multiple Authentication sources (Active Directory AND Sun LDAP) SAML support OpenID support OIM/OAM is coming Oracle Identity Manager/Oracle Access Manager is coming Authentication AND Authorization

    7. CAS – The Links Clients http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASC/Clients Princeton Implementation / Client examples https://sp.princeton.edu/OIT/SDP/CAS Technical Docs, Protocol, Support, User group http://www.ja-sig.org/products/cas

    8. CAS – Who is using it? In Production OIT/EIS SDP, DAS, AS Outdoor Action Firestone library (Apache AuthCAS) Outside vendor, CollegeNet Coming Soon Learn.com The Point

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