How to find out if a Shib SP would be able to decrypt using AES128-GCM?

Thomas Lenggenhager lenggenhager at switch.ch
Wed Jan 13 16:37:13 UTC 2021


The GCMEncryption wiki page [1] claims in the section 'Deployer Impact' that

> most Shibboleth SPs (usually recognizeable via entityID and by the /Shibboleth.sso paths in their endpoints) support GCM and most other SPs do not.

However, I haven't found any hint how I as SP administrator could easily
find out whether my SP would be able to decrypt AES128-GCM encrypted
assertions, if its metadata would publish support for this algorithm.

I guess it depends on the SP version as well as the OpenSSL version in
use. Any other dependencies?

We would like to start publishing AES128-GCM support for SPs registered
in SWITCHaai without causing too much overhead for the SP admins.

Has someone hands on experience with AES128-GCM on Shib SPs?

Any hints appreciated, thank you in advance,
Thomas

[1] https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/IDP4/GCMEncryption

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