This package provides a python implementation of saml version 2 to be used in a wsgi environment.

from wikipedia: security assertion markup language 2.0 (saml 2.0) is a version of the saml standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains. saml 2.0 is an xml-based protocol that uses security tokens containing assertions to pass information about a principal (usually an end user) between a saml authority, that is, an identity provider, and a saml consumer, that is, a service provider. saml 2.0 enables web-based authentication and authorization scenarios including cross-domain single sign-on (sso), which helps reduce the administrative overhead of distributing multiple authentication tokens to the user.

this package contains the documentation.