Prior to the February 2002 release of the Novell Development Kit (NDK), this document was entitled “Novell Single Sign-on™ for Java”. Although content of the current document is very similar to the former version, the name was changed to reflect Novell's product shift away from “Novell Single Sign-on” to other products that rely on SecretStore functionality, which facilitates the single sign-on process.
Indeed, Novell Single Sign-on was the first Novell product that used Novell SecretStore technology. Now, in addition to Novell Single Sign-on, a growing number of other products consume the SecretStore methods described in this document: Novell SecureLogin, Novell iChain, Novell Portal Services (NPS), Novell DirXML, virtual CDs (VCD), and others. Novell is now labelling and branding SecretStore components separately from the products that consume them.
Novell Single Sign-on (NSSO) Version 1.0 provided single sign-on access for a limited number of key applications, primarily used in Intranet environments. Version 2.x, offered in a bundle with Passlogix v-GO*, expanded the functionality to most web sites and Windows-based applications, with limited support for terminal emulators.
In June 2001, Novell released Novell SecureLogin 2.5 (NSL), an interim single sign-on solution that provided enhanced features of NSSO 2.x but lacked integration with several key Novell technologies (SecretStore, NMAS, NICI, etc.). Consequently, Novell introduced the Novell SecureLogin 3.0 snap in in late 2001, which combined features of both NSSO and NSL and integration with Novell security technologies. The new NSL 3.0 is now fully integrated with SecretStore.