SAMLizing the European Citizen Card.
Jan Eichholz, Detlef Hühnlein, Jörg Schwenk · 2009
Abstract: While the use of Federated Identity Management and Single Sign-On based on the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) standards becomes more and more important, there are quite a few European countries which are about to introduce national ID cards, which are compliant to the European Citizen Card (ECC) specifica-tion prCEN 15480. The present contribution shows how these two seemingly opposite approaches may be integrated in a seamless and secure fashion such that it is possi-ble to use the security features of the ECC in a federated scenario, which allows easy integration of Service Providers. 1