Sitrus LLC Joins Higgins Project Open Source Community Submits Code for Android Password Manager

RANDOLPH, NJ. September 23, 2009. Sitrus LLC, a software services company that delivers custom Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications to enterprise software vendors, announced today that it has joined the Higgins Project open source community and has submitted code for an Android - based password manager.

Higgins is an open source Internet identity framework designed to integrate identity, profile, and social relationship information across multiple sites, applications, and devices. Higgins is not a protocol; it is software infrastructure to support a consistent user experience that works with all popular digital identity protocols. Sitrus has submitted a code to the open project that overcomes some of the challenges in importing Higgins architecture to Android™.

Android is an operating system for mobile devices. It was built as an open system on the Linux Kernel so that developers could create compelling mobile applications that take advantage of handsets. Sitrus has developed code that allows users to create personal identifying credentials such as User ID and password combinations on their personal computers and then locate them on their mobile phone. Users can also create passwords on their Android enabled mobile device and then reuse them on their personal computers. This eliminates "password fatigue" or time spent saving and remembering personal passwords and retyping personal information into web forms.

"This code works in a similar way to the 'Remember Me' function in Windows," said Vadym Synakh, Vice President of Engineering for Sitrus. "At Sitrus, we believe password management should be simpler and less invasive whether on a PC or mobile device."

About The Higgins Project

Higgins is an open source Internet identity framework designed to integrate identity, profile, and social relationship information across multiple sites, applications, and devices. Higgins is not a protocol, it is software infrastructure to support a consistent user experience that works with all popular digital identity protocols, including WS-Trust, OpenID, SAML, XDI, LDAP.