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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">It should take you 1-2 files to be able to determine if you are signing assertions: relying-party.xml and the sp-metadata.xml file for their SP.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">relying-party.xml is where you globally or specifically allow/deny/force signing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">sp-metadata.xml file is where an SP can choose to request a signed assertion if allowed and the IdP doesn't force it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">users <users-bounces@shibboleth.net> on behalf of "Lohr, Donald" <lohrda@jmu.edu><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>Shib Users <users@shibboleth.net><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 16:05<br>
<b>To: </b>"users@shibboleth.net" <users@shibboleth.net><br>
<b>Subject: </b>IDP signs the SAML Assertion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I've a SP vendor asking:<br>
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<i>Are you able to go in to your identity provider, go to the service provider configuration, and ensure that the IDP signs the SAML Assertion?<br>
</i><br>
How can I actually prove this or not prove it?<br>
<br>
Don<br>
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<pre>D o n a l d L o h r<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>I n f o r m a t i o n S y s t e m s<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>J a m e s M a d i s o n U n i v e r s i t y<o:p></o:p></pre>
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