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RE: Tomcat and certificate validation for SSL


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  • From: "Scott Cantor" <>
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  • Subject: RE: Tomcat and certificate validation for SSL
  • Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:33:48 -0400
  • Organization: The Ohio State University

> Perhaps I'm not understanding the problem enough (probably) but would it
> help if the SP signed SAML Requests? Then it's client cert ends up in the
> SAML request and can be extracted by the AA and validated. TLS can still
> handle the wire, though it too could be binned if message-level encryption
> was used.

There is no interoperable way to do the encryption until 2.0, and we'd also
have to add replay detection/caching to prevent replay attacks.

-- Scott




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