saml-dev message

Subject: Re: [saml-dev] Use of transient and persistent identifiers in SAML

From: "Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2@osu.edu>
To: Security Developer <security.developer22@gmail.com>, SAML Dev <saml-dev@lists.oasis-open.org>
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 23:47:49 +0000

On 4/6/14, 3:13 AM, "Security Developer" <security.developer22@gmail.com>
wrote:

>In which of the use cases transient and persistent identifiers are used?

Transients are mainly for communicating a NameID for logout purposes since
they'd just as well be omitted otherwise. Persistents are pairwise
pseudonyms for applications that need identifiers but don't need identity.

-- Scott

References:
- Use of transient and persistent identifiers in SAML
  - From: Security Developer <security.developer22@gmail.com>