Identity provider (SAML)

A SAML identity provider is a system entity that issues authentication assertions in conjunction with a single sign-on (SSO) profile of the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML).

In the SAML domain model, a SAML authority is any system entity that issues SAML assertions. Two important examples of SAML authorities are the authentication authority and the attribute authority.

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