What is the difference between OpenID and SAML?
What is the difference between OpenID and SAML? Original OpenID 2.0 vs SAML They are two different protocols of authentication and they differ at the technical level. From a distance, differences start when users initiate the authentication. With OpenID, a user login is usually an HTTP address of the resource which is responsible for the authentication. On the other hand, SAML is based on an explicit trust between your site and the identity provider so it's rather uncommon to accept credentials from an unknown site. OpenID identities are easy to get around the net. As a developer you could