Shib IdP v3: Which certificate do you upload to InCommon?

Peter Schober peter.schober at univie.ac.at
Mon Mar 14 16:35:02 EDT 2016


* Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> [2016-03-14 20:52]:
> > * Karla Borecky <kborecky at smith.edu> [2016-03-14 20:00]:
> > > Well, we brought up a new IdP, with new certs and a new entityID.
> > 
> > Then there's nothing to change wtih regards to your existing/old IDP,
> > and you register the new IDP with InCommon the same way everyone
> > registers IDPs with InCommon.
> 
> I actually overlooked the "new entityID" part. Obviously that's not
> a key rotation, then, it's just a new IdP entirely. Any SP you're
> working with is effectively starting from scratch, so there are any
> number of outside considerations here. They might have to make
> database changes, or any number of adjustments on their side, for
> you to completely change to a new IdP.

Including potentially lost access to user data at SPs, due to changed
persistentIDs / eduPersonTargetedID!
(Unless you can virtualize the issuer part, and the SP would accept
that, and the OP actually took care to do all that.)
-peter


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