Federation
A federation is a collection of organizations that agree to interoperate under a certain rule set. Federations will usually define trusted roots, authorities and attributes, along with distribution of metadata representing this information. In general each organization participating in a federation operates one Identity Provider for their users and any number of Service Providers.
Federations are not required for the use of Shibboleth but can facilitate exchange greatly.
FEDURUS Identity Federation
Technical Framework
- Attributes
- In order to allow interoperation of the involved systems, an Attribute schema has been defined.
- Metadata
- The metadata describes Identity Providers and Resources available in FEDURUS. FEDURUS provides official metadata file in XML-format and digitally signed. These files are used by Shibboleth to determine valid systems to communicate with.
- Accepted Certificates
- Each host being part of FEDURUS needs for the SAML communication a certificate according to the SAML entity certificate requirements.
Joining FEDURUS
The procedure to become part of FEDURUS представлена в разделе: How to join FEDURUS