Bandit Overview
Bandit is a community created to help develop components that help define and move common digital identities throughout the computing world. Currently the main focus is on defining a common identity frame work, provide authentication and creditial caching, enable common roles and authorization, and ensure compliance via common record collecting. For more information, see What is the Bandit Project.
Bandit includes the following packages:
Packages
- Onramp To Identity Service (OTIS) -- The Onramp to Identity Services (OTIS) provides high level identity services to enterprise applications, including enabling such services for legacy applications. It consists of a RESTful web service which can be accessed directly, as well as a Java SDK which either accesses the web service or runs in a stand-alone mode.
- DigitalMe Identity Selector -- DigitalMe is a set of components that enable users and applications to interact with Information Card compatible web sites and services.
- Identity Provider (Bandit IdP) -- This is a package that brings together various Bandit and Higgins components into an Identity Provider (IdP) web application which can be easily deployed and configured.
- Higgins -- Higgins is an open source Internet identity framework designed to integrate identity, profile, and social relationship information across multiple sites, applications, and devices. As Bandit participants, we own and drive the Higgins Identity Attribute Service (IdAS) interface and several IdAS Context Providers that are part of the Higgins framework. Higgins project components.
- OpenXDAS -- OpenXDAS is an open source implementation of the OpenGroup's Distributed Auditing System released under the BSD open source license.
- CASA -- CASA is an open source component infrastructure for securely storing credential and other confidential data that can be used for authentication, single sign-on (SSO) and other purposes by users, services and applications on a desktop or server operating system.
