OIO Basic Privilege Profile

OIO Basic Privilege Profile (OIO BPP) is an extension to SAML that describes how privileges can be expressed as attibutes in SAML assertions. The current version of the specification is 1.1 which includes support for constraints on privileges; you can read more about OIO BPP here (Danish only), or download the spec from here which…

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The Golden Ratio and Fibonacci Numbers

Two quantities are in the golden ratio if their ratio is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities. Given \(a\) and \(b\) with \(a > b > 0\) we have $${a + b \over a} = {a \over b} = \phi$$ We can solve for \(\phi\) to…

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