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An open source project designed to provide the University of Michigan with a secure single sign-on web authentication system. Cosign is part of the National Science Foundation Middleware Initiative (NMI) EDIT software release.
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| developer = [[Research Systems Unix Group]]
| operating system = [[Cross-platform]]
| website = [http://weblogin.org/ weblogin.org]
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'''Cosign''' is an [[open-source software|open-source]] project originally designed by the [[Research Systems Unix Group]] to provide the [[University of Michigan]] with a secure [[single sign-on]] web [[authentication]] system.

Cosign authenticates a user on the web server and then provides an environment variable for the user's name. When the user accesses a part of the site that requires authentication, the presence of that variable allows access without having to sign on again.

Cosign is part of the [[National Science Foundation]] Middleware Initiative (NMI) EDIT software release.

== See also ==
* [[Central Authentication Service]]
* [http://webauth.stanford.edu/ Stanford WebAuth] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100711220438/http://webauth.stanford.edu/ |date=2010-07-11 }}
* [http://www1.umn.edu/is/cookieauth/aboutcah.html University of Minnesota CookieAuth]
* [[Shibboleth (Internet2)]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://weblogin.org cosign homepage]
* [http://webapps.itcs.umich.edu/cosign/index.php/Main_Page cosign Wiki]

[[Category:Computer security software]]
[[Category:Federated identity]]


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Latest revision as of 12:25, 4 July 2024

CoSign single sign on
Developer(s)Research Systems Unix Group
Operating systemCross-platform
Websiteweblogin.org

Cosign is an open-source project originally designed by the Research Systems Unix Group to provide the University of Michigan with a secure single sign-on web authentication system.

Cosign authenticates a user on the web server and then provides an environment variable for the user's name. When the user accesses a part of the site that requires authentication, the presence of that variable allows access without having to sign on again.

Cosign is part of the National Science Foundation Middleware Initiative (NMI) EDIT software release.

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