Getting a grasp on Heartbleed and IDPs

[Wessel, Keith]

Thanks, Scott, that sums things up exactly as I needed them.

Keith


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From: users-bounces at shibboleth.net [mailto:users-bounces at shibboleth.net] On Behalf Of Cantor, Scott
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 11:05 AM
To: Shib Users
Subject: Re: Getting a grasp on Heartbleed and IDPs

On 4/10/14, 11:53 AM, "Wessel, Keith" <kwessel at illinois.edu> wrote:

>If the IDP¹s private key was exposed (through connections to Apache 
>connections to 8443), what could a hacker do with it? Could they 
>intercept assertaions from our IDP and decrypt them? In short, what is 
>the IDP key and cert used for?

The attacker who stole the key can impersonate your IdP, full stop. They can issue signed assertions as your IdP's identity.

That specific case, you really have no recourse, you're stuck with a key rollover and getting the old one revoked (that is, get it out of the metadata).

-- Scott


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