Re: [saml-dev] SAML & establishing an SSO connection

["Dieter Maurer" <dieter@handshake.de>]

Lucas, Mike wrote at 2014-12-9 18:05 +0000:
>Imagine we want to have SSO between Site A and Site B, and the normal usage is for Site A to be the IdP, and Site B to be the SP.
>
>However, before the "connection" is established between these sites for a particular principal, Site A and B don't have any common information about the principal to agree upon. They don't want to use a back-channel, so they need a use case to establish a common identifier.

The typical case is that the IdP assigns an identifier "i" and passes it
to the SP and the SP uses the identifier "IdP:i" (i.e., "i" qualified
by the IdP; the qualification may be required when SP interacts
with other IdPs which might assign the same "i" to one of their users).
If the IdP,too, internally uses "IdP:i", you get a common identifier
used universally -- without any back-channel.



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Dieter