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<div>You are referring to the certificate used to sign the SAML Responses to the SP (vendor)?</div>
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<div>If so, my suggestion is to tell them to go suck an egg. Buying a certificate signed by a CA adds no security to the self-signed certificate you have now. They should be exchanging metadata with you by an out of band procedure. Trust is established by that
procedure, not by buying a certificate.</div>
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<div>Paul</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><Qian>, Yi <<a href="mailto:yqian@ku.edu">yqian@ku.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Shibboleth Users <<a href="mailto:users@shibboleth.net">users@shibboleth.net</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday, December 19, 2013 11:38 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Shibboleth Users <<a href="mailto:users@shibboleth.net">users@shibboleth.net</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>commercial cert for idp<br>
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We have shibboleth idp with self signed certificate and federated with many SPs, but recently a vendor requires us to use commercial certificate for the federation.</div>
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