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Introduction to Shibboleth and the IAMSECT Project

Introduction to Shibboleth and the IAMSECT Project. What is Shibboleth?. Authentication management Authorisation management (Open Source) Software A decentralised, key-based trust model Web-based. Overview. Users and Services, now Users and Services, with Shibboleth ID Providers

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Introduction to Shibboleth and the IAMSECT Project

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  1. Introduction to Shibboleth and the IAMSECT Project

  2. What is Shibboleth? • Authentication management • Authorisation management • (Open Source) Software • A decentralised, key-based trust model • Web-based

  3. Overview • Users and Services, now • Users and Services, with Shibboleth • ID Providers • The IAMSECT Project • Demonstration #1 - Shibboleth & BB • Demonstration #2 – BIOSIS (live) • Questions

  4. Users and Services - now Users Services • Many username & password pairs • Tools to manage them • Means of Coping • Managing user lists • ‘remote users’ • Keeping up-to-date • Confidentiality • Security

  5. User and Services - Shibboleth • One Home institution • One username and password Users Services • No user lists • Federations How?

  6. Identity Providers • Assert someone’s identity • You want your users to access remote services • Only worry about your own users

  7. Federations • Groups of Identity & Service Providers • A set of agreed policies • Mutual trust (via symmetric keys)

  8. IAMSECT • Inter-institutional Authorisation Management to Support eLearning with reference to Clinical Teaching

  9. IAMSECT • JISC funded • Collaboration between Durham, Northumbria, Newcastle • Shibboleth isn’t trivial • Technical issues • Managerial issues • Confidentiality - Clinical Teaching

  10. Demonstration #1 (theoretical) • At present, theoretical • Durham Blackboard (Service Provider) • Newcastle login (Identity Provider)

  11. Demonstration #1

  12. User attempts to access Service

  13. http://duo.dur.ac.uk/

  14. User redirected to ‘WAYF’

  15. https://wayf.sdss.ac.uk/shibboleth-wayf/...

  16. User selects their Identity Provider

  17. https://weblogin.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/index.cgi

  18. I.P. authenticates User Active Directory

  19. User redirected back to Service Active Directory

  20. https://shib.ncl.ac.uk/shibboleth/HS?...

  21. User accesses Service Active Directory

  22. http://duo.dur.ac.uk/

  23. Demonstration #2 (live) • EDINA BIOSIS e-journal Service • SDSS federation WAYF • Newcastle Identity Provider

  24. Questions

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