[IDM] eduPersonAssurance usage

[Keith Hazelton]

The recommended way to do this in SAML (Shib etc) is with Authentication Context, not as an attribute in the SAML attribute assertion.   --Keith
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On Feb 26, 2013, at 09:13:40, Francis Swasey wrote:

> I am being asked to approve the usage of the eduPersonAssurance attribute to tell our webauth implementation how it should authenticate (which process - simple password, one-time password (SecurID, UbiKey, etc), Radius) the person to the various web applications webauth is protecting.
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> Is this a valid use of the eduPersonAssurance attribute?  It is not how I was thinking that this attribute would be used. 
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> Thanks,
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