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I'm confused as hell about a statement a service provider (Clinicalkey Student, if anyone has heard of it), has given us about ongoing authentication failures via shibboleth:</div>
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We've identified the cause of the access issue. Your identity provider (IdP) is sending authentication timestamps that are too old; for security reasons, our system only accepts timestamps no older than 30 days.</div>
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How on earth is this a thing? No other provider is complaining about a timestamp difference, and our internal server team have confirmed that our VMs have been time locked to our Domain Controllers (which in turn are locked to JISC NTP sources).</div>
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If anyone has suggestions how we tackle this (either side), they would be appreciated.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Dave Perry</b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Application Analyst
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