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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The usual reason is to provide a trust engine that you can plug into a SignatureValidation Filter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/IdPMetadataProvider#IdPMetadataProvider-SignatureValidationFilter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> users-bounces@shibboleth.net [mailto:users-bounces@shibboleth.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>samir el otmani<br><b>Sent:</b> 13 January 2015 15:14<br><b>To:</b> Shib Users<br><b>Subject:</b> Trust Engine shibboleth<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>can anyone explain me why we add this code into relaying-party.xml <o:p></o:p></p><pre> <!-- Trust engine used to evaluate the signature on loaded metadata. --><o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <security:TrustEngine id="shibboleth.MetadataTrustEngine" xsi:type="security:StaticExplicitKeySignature"><o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <span style='background:yellow'><security:Credential id="TestCredentials" xsi:type="security:X509Filesystem"></span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <security:Certificate>/opt/shibboleth-idp/credentials/<span style='background:yellow'>federation.crt</span></security:Certificate><o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <span style='background:yellow'></security:Credential></span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'> </security:TrustEngine><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>if we can access the metadata by simple URL like this one :<br><a href="https://federation.renater.fr/test/renater-test-metadata.xml">https://federation.renater.fr/test/renater-test-metadata.xml</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>what is the utility to verify the signature on loaded metadata .<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>thank you<o:p></o:p></pre></div></div></div></body></html>