Raven/Shibboleth

Useful Links

Background

• "Federated Security: The Shibboleth Approach", R. L. "Bob" Morgan, Scott Cantor, Steven Carmody, Walter Hoehn, and Ken Klingenstein - as html; as pdf
• Part 3 of "Web Services Security", Bilal Siddiqui, talks about SAML (the Security Assertions Markup Language) which is what underpins Shibboleth. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
• John Paschoud's 'Shibboleth: Guide for SysAdmins'

Organizations

• JISC, and their Shibboleth plans (MS Word format, sorry)
• BECTA
• The UK Access Management Federation

Software and reference

• Internet2 Shibboleth Project
• SAML
• EduPerson (while Shib doesn't require the EduPerson LDAP schema, it does use it to define some attributes)
• Athens:
  • Local
  • From Eduserv