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RE: [Shib-Dev] Authentication using Shibboleth to an stand alone application.


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  • From: "Scott Cantor" <>
  • To: <>
  • Subject: RE: [Shib-Dev] Authentication using Shibboleth to an stand alone application.
  • Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:57:37 -0500
  • Organization: The Ohio State University
Caio Honda wrote on 2009-12-02:
> To be more specific the client is a Java application for desktop.
> This application needs to get the credentials of the User, and then try to
> access a service that is protected (protected by another
> application called Authentication Service-AS). This is currently done
> through the SASL protocol, where the client JAVA accesses Online services
> called CA Online (CA eduGAIN SASL online) and obtain the User credentials
> and a certificate of short duration. The problem is that for every
> institution in my federation I'll have to have a SASL CA installed.

And any other reasonable solution will require extensions to a Shibboleth
IdP hosted at each institution to support a new profile, so there is no
particular difference.

> I intend to make the client get a JAVA
> SAML Assertion of Shibboleth and can use the AS.

Then a lot depends on exactly what the "AS" requires and how SAML is
integrated into it. If it's not web-based, you have a much more complicated
problem.

-- Scott



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