Few questions regarding Shibboleth and SAML

[Peter Schober]

* Moonlight <mona0045 at gmail.com> [2014-08-09 01:04]:
> * Peter Schober <peter.schober at univie.ac.at> [2014-08-06 17:34]:
> > * Moonlight <mona0045 at gmail.com> [2014-08-06 13:05]:
> > > How does IdP store the information about earlier successful
> > > authentication.
> > 
> > In memory, currently, why do you want to know this?
>
> Thanks for the answers, can you please give me a reference for your first
> answer where can i read about it?

I probably still don't understand what you're after but the
implementation details are in the source code and maybe in the API
docs.

> Actually i am interested to know what is the role of assertion in
> showing the successful earlier authentication.

Not sure what this has to do with the IDP's internal workings (where
it stores information about authentication events) but did you look at
the SAML core document ("Assertions and Protocols")? That has details
and processing rules on assertions.

This would be easier if you just said what you needed and why (i.e.,
what for). OTOH, none of this seems to be about using the Shibboleth
software, so I suggest to post questions about the Shibboleth
implementation to the Shibboleth dev list, and questions or
clarification requests about SAML to <saml-dev at lists.oasis-open.org>.
-peter