Decoding encrypted attributes from an IDP
Cantor, Scott
cantor.2 at osu.edu
Tue Jul 24 10:30:38 EDT 2012
> None of these errors showed up anywhere when the partner was just
> encrypting the attributes. This set of errors showed up once I asked them to
> encrypt the assertion. They indicated that they are encrypting both now
> (meaning, encrypt attributes, then encrypt the assertion), which seems
> pretty stupid so I hope that is not actually what they are doing. Putting
> extractKeyNames=false into our config didn't actually solve the problem:
It's extractNames, actually, my mistake. And yes, if they don't stop encrypting twice, you'll be back where you started.
> Something must be wrong with either the public key we gave them or how
> they are using it, is all I can think. Also, I have no idea how AES is coming into
> play since neither side is specifying to use AES anywhere. Is that the default
> private key algorithm Shib uses?
Just ignore it, or you can read XML Encryption in your spare time if you want to know how it all works.
-- Scott
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