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GatorLink Authentication Using Shibboleth Peer 2 Peer August 6, 2010

UF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Shibboleth Warren Curry Associate Director and Lead, Core IT – ES Alan Cook Interim Director, Student Information Systems – ES Eli Ben-Shoshan Shibboleth Technical Contact – CNS

UF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Shibboleth Project Timeline Spring 2008: Project Began Initial „Go Live‟ Winter 2009: „Go Live‟ for Enterprise Apps Winter 2010: July 2010: 250 Approved Service Providers Fall 2010: GLAuth Will Sunset

UF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY What is Shibboleth? A standards-based, open-source software providing Web single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries

UF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Shibboleth Allows sites to make informed authorization decisions for individual access of protected online resources in a privacy-preserving manner

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UF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Attribute Release • Shibboleth is designed to provide data about users (attributes) to authorized requestors • Attribute Release is governed by UF‟s Attribute Release Policy

UF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Attribute Release • Attribute Release Policy is associated with an Application (typically a URL) • At UF, an Application is associated with a Responsible Party via UFID

UF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY www.it.ufl.edu/identity/shibboleth

UF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY InCommon “The mission of the InCommon Federation is to create and support a common framework for trustworthy shared management of access to on-line resources in support of education and research in the United States.” http://www.incommonfederation.org

UF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Future of Gator Link Authentication • GLAUTH proposed sunset Nov. 1, 2010 • Password will not be collected on your applications • Kerberos or AD for all authentication • New features will be added as community needs and secure technology allows • Listserv for this community is active

UF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Questions? Warren: whcurry@ufl.edu Alan: acook@ufl.edu Eli: ebs@ufl.edu