crypto for beginners

[Tom Scavo]

Strictly speaking, this message is off-topic for this list. I hope you
agree this info may be beneficial to subscribers (especially new
subscribers) of this mailing list.

The following article provides a basic understanding of asymmetric crypto:

Explaining public-key cryptography to non-geeks
https://medium.com/@vrypan/explaining-public-key-cryptography-to-non-geeks-f0994b3c2d5

The novel description of public key encryption in the above article is
simply brilliant, a must-read for new deployers of the Shibboleth
software.

For complete details regarding the Shibboleth IdP software, see the
"Keys and Certificates" section of the SecurityAndNetworking topic in
the wiki: https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/x/VoEOAQ

Tom