relying party

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relying party

A website or other entity on the Internet that uses an identity provider to authenticate a user who wants to log in. See identity metasystem and OpenID.

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location_id is the 'from' id of the organization or the site of the relying party in the distributed systems;

Design and development of the dynamic DRBAC model using PMI and XACML-based authorization

The effect of this is that the person who actually performs these functions, the Registration Authority, has no direct liability to a relying party.

The law of unintended consequences--embedded business models in IT regulation

But a person will not incur such early reliance expenditures if she later can be held up by another party who blithely claims that, since there was no contract when the reliance expenditures were incurred, it therefore has no obligation to pay for any of those expenditures, or even to finish the negotiations, thus inducing the relying party to agree to terms that mean a net loss for her.

Investment, information, and promissory liability

As long as the relying party trusts the authority to make such assertions about that particular subject, then there is no need for any of the components to use the same products or even be under the administrative control of the same organization.

Security Assertion Markup Language: the key to federated security services. (Internet)

Clearly, however, reliance is unjustified when the relying party is negligent.

SysTrust and third-party risk

There must have been some conduct linking the accountant to the relying party.

Is the litigation storm ending for the embattled accounting profession?

If the user has not already authenticated with an LOA2 ID, PingFederate at the relying party site will ask the user to authenticate with an identity provider that is certified to provide that level of assurance.

Ping Identity Previews Seamless SSO Access with Multiple Protocols and Levels of Assurance at Burton Catalyst 2010

Federation operators and their respective relying party members will leverage IAF assessments performed by Liberty Alliance accredited assessors to determine the credential-based identity services they are willing to trust.

LIBERTY ALLIANCE RELEASES INDENTITY ASSURANCE FRAMEWORK

A digital signature entails using a specific technology called public key infrastructure (PKI), which generally involves a certificate authority, registration authority, subscriber, and a relying party.

Legal issues in documenting: e-commerce transactions. (Cover Story)

Ping Identity's Google IdP Connector gives SaaS vendors who have deployed PingFederate the ability to act as a Google OpenID relying party.

Ping Identity Announces OpenID Support for Google Apps Marketplace

GameSpy will also be supporting OpenID, both as an identity provider and a relying party, which means that millions of people around the globe will be able to take advantage of GameSpy's services with their existing online identity.