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FuGen Solutions MISP^TM virtual federation platform helps the Danish Government certify eGov Federation scenarios based on SAML 2.0 standard

Danish Government just released free Toolkits and Reference implementations for service providers that need to federate with Identity Providers supporting the open SAML 2.0 standard. They include the Danish Public Sector Login (called NemLog-in) and the Danish Business-to-Government portal (called Virk.dk)’s login. The toolkits and associated reference implementations implements the Danish eGov OIOSAML 2.0 profile and can be downloaded from the open source repository softwareborsen.dk.

The Government of Denmark (DK) used FuGen Solutions MISP^TM to set up a virtual identity hub to demonstrate DK’s citizen portal use cases simulating an Identity Provider and multiple service providers. FuGen MISP^TM facilitates partner on-boarding, federation deployment Interoperability testing and external agencies (SPs) compliance for EU Government federation (OIOSAML2.0).

The purpose of these toolkits is twofold. For a service provider that does not use a standard product for integration, the toolkits accelerate and facilitate the integration with Danish public sector solutions like the citizen portal (Borger.dk) and the Business-to-Government portal (Virk.dk). The toolkits lower the development costs associated with this integration, thus accelerating federation deployments within EU eGov space.

With the toolkits, citizens and employees can login to a web solution and simultaneously achieve single sign on to other solutions within the same federation. Instead of developing similar functionality from scratch, by using one of the released toolkits, a public authority can save months of development work..

The toolkits, reference implementations and development tools are sponsored by the IT Infrastructure and Implementation Division at the Danish National IT and Telecom Agency in conjunction with public sector partners such as the Danish Public Sector Federation, anchored at the Danish Agency for Governmental Management, together with the Danish Knowledge Center for Software.

The reference implementations have gone through integration testing. The DK SAML2.0 compliance certification reports produced by FuGen MISP^TM regarding the .Net toolkit will be added to the downloads in the very near future.

The OIOSAML 2.0 open source solutions and FuGen Solutions MISP^TM reports can be found at the following links

http://www.softwareborsen.dk/projekter/softwarecenter/brugerstyring/oio-saml-java
http://www.softwareborsen.dk/projekter/softwarecenter/brugerstyring/oiosaml.net
http://www.softwareborsen.dk/projekter/softwarecenter/brugerstyring/oiosimplesamlphp