Shibboleth

Shibboleth is a cross-organization security platform developed as part of Internet2. Shibboleth is defined as standards-based, open source middleware software that provides Web single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries. It allows sites to make informed authorization decisions for individual access of protected online resources in a privacy-preserving manner.

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