The concept of federated access management introduces the need for a user to be ‘returned’ to their institutional login page in order to be authenticated. The new Shibboleth releases have introduced some nice new ideas to help make this experience better for users, such as introducing co-branding with the SP. Unfortunately, quite a lot of … Read more
So I’ve been having an interesting conversation with that Dave Pattern about authentication this morning and why librarians like EZProxy so much. I’m not going to get in to the whole discussion about the problems of proxies, the issues with faking an IP authentication and the lack of personalisation. I want to talk about why … Read more
Shortly before Christmas, the Shibboleth team released their first beta of the new Shibboleth Embedded Discovery service. Unless you are on the shibdev list you might not have heard about this lovely new development so I thought I might do a bit of ‘pimping’! The embedded DS aims to significantly improve the current problems that … Read more
I recently attended the REFEDS and Internet2 Member meetings in Atlanta with both of my new hats on – as coordinator for REFEDS and consortium manager for the Shibboleth Consortium. I was there in part to talk about sausages 😉 Well, actually to present the eduID business case at REFEDS. We have had two main … Read more