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Investigating Liberty Alliance and Shibboleth Integration

Investigating Liberty Alliance and Shibboleth Integration. Nishen Naidoo, 30396468 Supervisor: Dr. Steve Cassidy. Talk Outline. Introduction to Federated Identity Management Example Multiple Frameworks Shibboleth Liberty Alliance Project Objectives and Motivation

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Investigating Liberty Alliance and Shibboleth Integration

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  1. Investigating Liberty Alliance and Shibboleth Integration Nishen Naidoo, 30396468 Supervisor: Dr. Steve Cassidy

  2. Talk Outline • Introduction to Federated Identity Management • Example • Multiple Frameworks • Shibboleth • Liberty Alliance • Project Objectives and Motivation • Deconstructing the Frameworks • Conclusion

  3. Federated Identity Management (FIM) • Reduce number of online identities • Reduce privacy exposure • User controls who sees what • Enables easy sharing of resources

  4. Main Actors in FIM • Users • Using a User Agent (Browser) • Service Provider • Provide resources and services • Protect resources and services • Identity Provider • Authenticates users • Provides security assertions to Service Providers

  5. Example Interaction • Resource Request • Redirection to IdP • SAML Authentication Request • IdP authenticates User • Form Response • SAML Authentication Response • Automatic Form Submission • Process Assertion • Resource Acquired

  6. Multiple Frameworks • Shibboleth • Higher Education focus • Resource Sharing, privacy, security • InCommon, AAF • Liberty Alliance • Commercial sector focus • Service integration, privacy, security • Intel, GM

  7. Issues with Multiple Frameworks • User perspective • More credentials due to technology limitation • Less privacy • Unnecessary federations • Formed from having to support multiple technologies • Increases difficulty of forming federations • Need to support services within each framework? What do you do?

  8. Project Objectives • Investigating whether we can extend a federation beyond the boundaries imposed by the technologies it employs – integration…

  9. Deconstructing the Frameworks • Both frameworks base on SAML specification • Identified the following: • Assertions – identical to each other (both SAML) • Protocols – identical (SAML) • Bindings - Different • Profiles – Similar enough (derived from SAML).

  10. Relevant Logical Subcomponents • Service Provider • Attribute Requester • Assertion Consumer Service • Identity Provider • Attribute Authority • Single Sign On Service

  11. Technology Example • Shibboleth Identity Provider • Java Web Application based • Employs servlets as endpoint processors • Has filter capabilities (interceptor pattern)

  12. Conclusion • Identified the binding differences and conversions • Message structure • Parameter referencing • Identified strategic architectural locations for adaptation • Provided technology example • Identified implementation as future work

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