SP Key Rollover with IdP encryptAssertions="conditional"

Tom Scavo trscavo at gmail.com
Thu Sep 22 17:31:31 BST 2011


On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Leung, Warren <wleung at it.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
>>I think you mean SP metadata. Strictly speaking, you don't need two
>>encryption keys in SP metadata.
>
> If you can't time the metadata loading with when the SP changes the
> cert/key, then wouldn't you have to have 2?

In metadata? No.

> If you had complete control
> of everything I could see how you wouldn't need it 2 though.

You only need complete control at the SP. If you needed to control the
IdP as well, then key rollover would be impossible in all but the
simplest deployments.

Tom


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