Orenosp V2 Single Sign-On with OpenID (Beta)

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This is a page for customers interested in the next major version of Orenosp, refered to as Orenosp V2. Orenosp V2 is a large step forward to be a unified application proxy that addresses pains often encountered by companies and organizations trying to partner with other companies and outside professionals. Orenosp V2 is targetted to be a practical and cost effective solution for small businesses and departmental depoyments. Orenosp V2 is also an ideal platform for system integrators and network appliance manufacturers looking for great differentiator system components.

Orenosp SSO Overview

Orenosp SSO lets employees to log in with existing username and passwords (e.g., AD) while outside partners can log in with their OpenID URLs. Once logged into Orenosp SSO, the user can access internal apps without re-authentication.

For example, if you have an IT infrastructure consisting of an Exchange server (OWA) and a Sharepoint server in your company and want to collaborate with your partners using your IT infrastructure, you would be facing many issues around user authentication, password insecurity and management chores. Orenosp V2 SSO offers an solution for such a case.

Orenosp enables remote users to log in to the company's IT system using existing ActiveDirectory username and password.
Orenosp enables your partners to log in to the company's IT system using OpenIDs of their choice.

Orenosp V2 Roadmap

Version	Feature	Description	Release Target	Status
2.0	Single-Sign-On using OpenID	Offers a practical solution for solving cross-organizational authentication issues when trying to collaborate with partners using commercial web applications like Exchange Server and SharePoint Services. Orenosp V2 Authentication Improvements Orenosp V2 SSO	Currently in Beta. Release data TBD	First beta version, Beta-1 is available. Note: Please see Beta Evaluation Guide for installation and usage for this beta. Download Beta-1-10 (uploaded on 2008/10/28) Orenosp SSO Beta Evaluation Guide (updated 2008/10/31)
2.1	Performance-enhancing Cache and Web Application Accelerator for Branch Offices	Compressed Cache: content caching in gzipped-compressed form to optimze for disk storage, network bandwidth and CPU load. Web Application Accelerator : locating Orenosp on the client side (i.e., branch offices) to accelerate access to web applications at the data center.	TBD	In Planning

More detailed enhancements roadmap will be coming soon as another document.

Online Demo is Available

We started to tentatively offer an online demo of Orenosp V2 SSO. Please see this page.

Other Information

FAQ
Includes advantages with ADFS, etc.
Multiple Hostnames Strategy for Orenosp V2
Download (Updated on 2009/05/28).
Mostly describes need for using multiple virtual hostnames and SSL certificate strategy for it.

Contact

For inquiries, please contact sales@orenosv.com.

Orenosv.com Development Blog

Orenosv.com blog

Discussion forum

The discussion forums for Orenosv.com products are open.
Orenosv.com Forums

Copyright Notices

Orenosp V2 is copyrighted by Masato Kataoka. Some portion of documentation is copyrighted by Mitsuo Kataoka.
Orenosp V2 includes open source software libraries. For the list of libraries, please see here.

Acknowlegements to Open Source Community

Orenosp uses OpenSSL Toolkit developed by the OpenSSL Project (http://www.openssl.org/).

Orenosp V2 uses libopkele, OpenID protocol library written in C++. If you are interested in using libopkele from Windows applications written in C/C++, please see my patch for libopkele here.