Salesforce with Shibboleth IdP

Eric Goodman ericg at ucsc.edu
Mon Jun 11 19:37:20 BST 2012


We're using HTTP-Post, so the latter.

Though I'd characterize it more that we "accept the risk of..." than that
we "not worry about the lack of..." :)

--- Eric

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Chad La Joie <lajoie at itumi.biz> wrote:

> Eric, did you move to an attribute query model as well or did you just
> not worry about the lack of end-to-end confidentiality?
>
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Eric Goodman <ericg at ucsc.edu> wrote:
> > This is not really answering your direct question, but tangentially we
> had
> > this issue with a different vendor.
> >
> > Our solution was to verify that the vendor's SAML client still verified
> the
> > message signature. Knowing the signature was checked, that ssl was being
> > used on all of the SAML transactions, and that the data being sent was
> > relatively benign (ePPN in this case) we got the okay to integrate
> without
> > encrypted assertions.
> >
> > --- Eric
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Keith Hazelton <hazelton at doit.wisc.edu
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
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> >>
> >> Warren,
> >>
> >> So that would leads me to ask Michael Chale--are you dropping
> Salesforce?
> >>  If not, how are you addressing the conflict about encrypted vs.
> >> unencrypted?
> >>
> >>       --Keith
> >> ________________
> >> On Jun 11, 2012, at 13:23:55, Curry, Warren wrote:
> >>
> >> > Andrew,
> >> >
> >> > I guess this response from Mike Chale at UF - College of Business was
> >> > bounced back to him I am forwarding on to the list..  We had issue
> due to
> >> > required encryption at UF.
> >> > Warren
> >> > ==================================.
> >> >
> >> > Good afternoon, Andrew
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > We tried to use Shibboleth as an IdP but ran into a few stumbling
> >> > blocks, one of which was a show-stopper - Salesforce cannot handle
> encrypted
> >> > responses from the IdP and our university's current policy is to only
> >> > provide encrypted responses.
> >> >
> >> > If you would like to discuss any further details I would be happy to
> >> > help you out.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >  Michael Chale
> >> >  Solutions Engineer
> >> >  Technology Solutions
> >> >
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: users-bounces at shibboleth.net [mailto:
> users-bounces at shibboleth.net]
> >> > On Behalf Of Andrew Morgan
> >> > Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 12:52 PM
> >> > To: Shib Users
> >> > Subject: Re: Salesforce with Shibboleth IdP
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Peter Schober wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> * Andrew Morgan <morgan at orst.edu> [2012-06-07 18:42]:
> >> >>>   Login Error
> >> >>>   Your login attempt using single sign-on with an identity provider
> >> >>>   certificate has failed. Please contact your salesforce.com
> >> >>> administrator
> >> >>>   for more information.
> >> >>
> >> >> If all else fails you could try just that?
> >> >> -peter
> >> >
> >> > Unfortunately, my co-worker is the administrator and we are both
> trying
> >> > to understand what is going wrong!  :)
> >> >
> >> > We have tried using Salesforce's SAML assertion validator, but that
> >> > doesn't raise any errors.  I was hoping someone might have experience
> with
> >> > Salesforce, or at least have a working Shibboleth-Salesforce setup
> that I
> >> > could compare against.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> >       Andy
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