Questions tagged [saml]
An open Single Sign On (SSO) solution for the web, a problem also addressed by OpenID.
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sp initiated saml sso authentication
I am working on SP initiated saml sso and it is completely new to me. I have gone through lots of articles and videos(wikipedia, centrify chalktalk, medium posts) but i am not able to understand some ...
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SAML - when creating new users, how do I get essential fields?
My company runs a saas product; as we move into enterprise customers, we're getting more and more requests for SSO.
I understand the SAML workflow for authentication, and roughly how we'd implement ...
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Fool SAML authentication
My company's has given a corporate membership to Udemy, which is accessible from company's laptop only.
I tried to look into it and it uses SAML. If I open my company's Udemy website on any other ...
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Attack vectors with encrypted SAML assertion response
I'm testing a web application which uses SAML SSO. SAML Response has signature and it is verified correctly if data is tampered. But I noticed that when signature is removed completely authentication ...
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Is signature validation mandatory if encrypted assertions are sent over HTTPs in SAML 2.0?
We are using SAML Web Browser SSO Profile (SAML 2.0)
We have a SP using SAML2.0. All communication between IdP and SP is over HTTPs.
If AuthnResponse from IdP is sent over HTTPs, is it mandatory for ...
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Is Browser based flows required for most IdP based Authentication standards?
I'm going to apologize in advance for the rambling nature of this question, I've read a lot about SAML and OIDC and other standards, just trying to understand why browsers seem to be so essential for ...
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Can API Consumer be SAML token provider?
I am a newbie to SAML based authentication. In a typical B2B enterprise setup, I need to consume an API provided by another organization. API provider has two factor authentication enabled, mutual TLS ...
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GLUU support for SAML URI binding
I understand that GLUU uses Shibboleth for SAML. As going through the Shibboleth Protocols and interfaces, there doesn't seem to be any support for SAML URI binding.
Does GLUU support URI binding? If ...
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Voting w/ SAML + BlockChain
There are a few grass roots initiatives to introduce blockchain as a ledger for election voting. My criticism of the ones I have seen, at the time I saw them, is that they did not adequately address ...
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How to setup SAML?
I am learning about SAML and already read many articles and forums but I still having confusion about setup IdP.
I am using "https://simplesamlphp.org/"
For example, I have 3 websites "example.com", "...
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SAML 2 | Refresh IdP Session when user is working on SP
Wanted to discuss the solution and options to refresh the IdP Session when user is actively working on the SP.
The use case is that after successful SP-Initiated SSO, there are two sessions in ...
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How to get better IAM understanding
I'm getting interested in Identity and Access Management (IAM), but I find it hard to find complete and understandable explanations that suit me, surely because I started wrong.
I began with ...
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How to do authentication of SaaS implementation for uploading, processing, and retrieving documents
We would like to provide a B2B SaaS with the following flow:
Our customer's end-users upload their document using our custom
upload UI which should be embedded using an iframe
Once the user finishes ...
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Do I need to use SAML and JWT for auth in SSO web app?
I am new to SAML authentication process so I am just trying to figure out if I understand it so I can try to integrate my web app (Angular/Nodejs) to an existing portal that currently uses SAML as ...
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Are these SAML NameID's equivalent?
I have an application that uses SAML authentication, acts as an SP, and therefore parses SAMLResponses. I received notification that an IdP that communicates with my application will now start signing ...
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SAML nameID impersonation
We are using the nameId from the SAML response (in email format) to identify and authorize the incoming user on our system.
Could a different authenticated user not alter the SAML response from their ...
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Where are passwords stored in SAML? On the IdP or on the SP side?
I understand the basic flow of SAML but is still unclear to me where the passwords are stored.
This image shows "APP VERIFIES SAML RESPONSE & LOGS USER IN" from onelogin looks like the password ...
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Is there a way to tell if an Android app really uses SSO(Single Sign On)?
In the last few years, SSO protocols like OAuth and SAML are becoming increasingly used to enable 3rd parties access some user's resources from some service without the need for user to provide ...
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Can an SSL certificate be used to generate a SAML token
An external application (B) requires a SAML token to allow users who log into my application (A) to access it directly without having to log in again. This access is not built yet. My organization has ...
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Appropriate use of validUntil and cacheDuration in metadata
After reading the spec I'm unclear on the appropriate use of validUntil and cacheDuration in SAML metadata. Is there any danger in having a validUntil value a year or more into the future?
For ...
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SSO - Client Certificate vs SAML
For me SSO is sign on where one need not type the password explicitly.
I see one of the possible way to achieve it is by using Certificates loaded in browser.
SAML/OAuth delegates the job of ...
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is it possible to log un-encypted assertions in saml
Our system logs assertions before we encrypt them using PROTOCOL_MESSAGE, but for some SP's doesn't encryption and there is no logging. Is there a way to log SAML assertions even when we are not ...
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Any practical Single Sign-On (SSO) protocol/traffic analysis tool/method/analyzer? [closed]
I want to analyze the SSO protocol/traffic that is deployed in real environment, such as commercial website. The challenge is that most of them are black-box.
Scenario 1. I read several papers about ...
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Storing SAML Idp certificates in APP_Data folder
We provided a SAML2 Service Provider to our client, so they can use that to configure their Identity Provider to our Service Provider.
My questions is about our client certificate, I'm worried that ...
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Is it possible to analyze real Single Sign-On (SSO) messages via network sniffing?
I am thinking how to gain and analyze the information in the real SSO (request/response) messages, for some commercial SSO solutions.
The challenge is that most commercial SSO solutions are black-box ...
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Verification methods of IDP in SAML2 IDP initiated login
What are the methods we can use to verify Identity Provider in Identity Provider initiated login in SAML2 Single sign on (SAML2 SSO)? Can any one who has access to IDP private key are able to create a ...
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Do we need CSRF protection for WS-Federation Passive Requestor Profile?
Consider the steps involved in WS-Federation Passive Requestor Profile1:
The above figure shows a sequence diagram of a user (requestor) accessing a web application with his browser. Since the user ...
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Claims based authentication to log on to a device
Are there operating systems that allow logging on to the device (laptop, tablet etc.) using claims based authentication?
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What do I need to ask 3rd party to add trust
We have ADFS and want to add a 3rd party application as trusted to it. I have certificate and metadata (xml) URI to give them but want to have a checklist what they need to give me. So far
HTTP ...
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Single Sign On : Get user name pc before authentication on Identity Provider
Well, I am new in security (SSO, SAML, etc).
The scenario We have a Web Application , we want to catch user name (for example windows user) before it has been sent to be authenticated with the ...
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Why is OAuth2/OpenID Connect considered less secure than SAML/WS-*?
The prevailing notion seems to be that OAuth2 and OpenID Connect are considered less secure than SAML/WS-Federation. From what I gather, it comes down to encryption - i.e. the fact that OAuth2/Open ID ...
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How does SAML signature exchange work between IDP and SP?
I'm trying to understand the SAML protocol 2.0 (signed) exchange.
Here is what I understood so far:
IDP has its own public (PB1) and private (PV1) pair
SP has its own public (PB2) and private (PV2)...
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Self-signed certificate for a IdP-initiated SAML SSO
We act as a Service Provider in a SAML SSO integration with our customers. During the dev and stage testing, we usually exchange metadata files and SSO endpoints.
When forming our metadata we use the ...
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Adfs saml credential provider
Wanted to see if the following is feasible or is there a way out?
My situation, computers have internet access always (assumption)
I want to write a credential provider with a browser embed and talk ...
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Logout from IdP, where should user end up?
When a user clicks Logoff on my website, it executes the following .NET code:
public ActionResult SLOService()
{
// Receive the single logout request or response.
// If a request is received ...
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Is SSO without SSL possible and/or secure?
Lets imagine a site where HTTPS is not used, for any good or bad reasons. The admin of this site still need a way to secure connections and think about using unique authentication with social networks ...
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Is it safe to allow HTTP for SAML 2.0 Issuer URL?
I've implemented SAML 2.0 using the ruby-saml gem in my Rails app. In this app, clients can specify their SAML idp for their account. I have a client who insists that requiring HTTPS for the Issuer ...
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Does WS-Security require an extra signature in the SAML assertion?
According to the SAML core 2.0 profile, the signature, if there is one, should be right after the Issuer element (see section 2.3.3). But in the WS-Security 1.1.1 profile, the example at section 3.5....
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Does SAML 2.0 define how to pass only username from SP to IDP?
I am looking at a use case where the service provider will need to capture the user id (not password) to identify the target IDP. In this case, the requirement is to send the user id (that is already ...
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Does SAML 2.0 define how to pass username and password for authentication?
I'm aware of how SAML is used for single sign on (SSO). That is, redirection to IDP from SP and getting the user's identity from the SAML response/assertion.
My question is: Does SAML 2.0 ...
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Authentication Middleware
We run a large distributed system consisting of a number (>10) of Django-based web services and web applications with a consumer base of about 10000 university students. Currently, we use a single ...
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How can I test my SSO connection without having access to the Identity Provider?
I'm trying to set up an SSO connection using Auth0. My app is set up as the Service Provider (SP), and it needs to work with PingFederate as the Identity Provider (IdP).
I don't have access to an ...
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SAML, OAUTH, XACML oh my (Authorization)!
Unfortunately, after using several SSO/IAM products at a 'lite touch' to 'deep integration' level, I'm still left unsatisfied, so going to ask the most basic question I can:
Given multiple ...
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SAML token and service calls
I am working on a tablet application and have come across an interesting issue.
We have a domain joined tablet that runs a Windows Store Application. We already have user identity and we need to call ...
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Different timezone in WebSSO using ADFS as IDP
Is there a best practise when it comes to handling timezones in an international single-sign-on solution?
I've been asked to include the clients timezone in our saml-ticket as an attribute. This will ...
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Automated SAML authentication without user interaction
I'm required to integrate my website with SAML authentication, so that any login done to my website, the credentials will be validated by a specific idp (known in advance)
Even after reading many ...
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Securing a JavaScript Single Page App with SAML
I would like to secure a JavaScript Single Page App with SAML. My server is powered using Node.js and serves a RESTful API. What are my options?
Details: I have worked with OAuth2 in the past, but I ...
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SAML without certificate
A company asked me if it is possible to use the SAML-protocol without any certificate at all. The standard doesn't require a SAML-ticket to be signed or encrypted so the answer would be yes?
Is this a ...
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Definition of “passive” and “active” authentication?
I came across the concepts of passive authentication and active authentication in my work related to SAML 2.0 single-sign-on integration. I tried very hard to find a clear, generic definition and a ...
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SAML 2.0 Multiple AuthnStatements
If I interpret the SAML 2.0-protocol correctly you can have multiple AuthnStatements. What is the purpose of this? I cannot see a use case of having multiple AuthnStatements really.
