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SimpleSAMLphp

An application written in native PHP that deals with authentication.

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SimpleSAMLphp is a community-led PHP application focused on authentication. Its main focus is providing support for SAML 2.0 as a Service Provider (SP) and SAML 2.0 as an Identity Provider (IdP). It also supports other identity protocols and frameworks such as CAS, OpenID Connect, WS-Federation and OAuth, and is described as easily extendable so you can develop your own modules. The project reports a large user base, a helpful user community and a diverse set of external contributors.

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