The JISC (who sound as if they ought to be an alien race, from EE "Doc" Smith or Doctor Who) have had an animation produced that does a pretty good job of explaining the principles behind what I do during the day.

It's not going to help you set up your own Shibboleth Entity, but it does explain why you might want to.
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From: [identity profile] megamole.livejournal.com


Is a shibboleth like a shoggoth but dribblier?

(g, d & r vvvf)
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From: [identity profile] akicif.livejournal.com


It ought to be. And the Dutch version ought to be called Scheveningen....
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From: [identity profile] megamole.livejournal.com


Please clean the phlegm off your screen.

I have been to Scheveningen. There is a good steakhouse there that does Argentine beef.
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From: [identity profile] akicif.livejournal.com


I've not been to that steakhouse, but I've been to the Israeli-Indonesian fusion restaurant and takeaway on the prmoenade near the Kurhuis(sp?)

Scheveningen also had the world fireworks championship in the same week as ConFiction (1990 Worldcon in Den Haag) - hundreds of thousands of guilders worth of pyrotechnics going up in smoke two or three times weekly).

I had a lovely Argentine steak at one of the many steakhouses on Lange Leidsedwarsstraat in behind Leidseplein - which is basically "pick a Latin American cuisine, any Latin American cuisine".
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From: [identity profile] akicif.livejournal.com


Aarrgh. "Prmoenade" looks dutch, but it's just promenade. And s/weekly/nightly/ into the bargain.

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From: [identity profile] akicif.livejournal.com


I've not really looked at OpenID (but was pleasantly surprised to discover that my ProtectNetwork typekey ID worked as an OpenID one, too). The short answer, apparently, is that OpenID doesn't use SAML, but there are currently negotiations between the two communities to render them compatible.

There's a comparative article about identity management that may be of interest, but it looks as if they're also more useful in different areas: Shibboleth for groups working together; OpenID for individual access to resources.

Hmmm. I think I'm going to have to go away and do some more reading....
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OpenID rocks (your LJ is one, as is a technorati profile and a few other unexpected things; all my domains are for me).

Hadn't heard of Shibboleth, will have to dig when I've a bit more time; really a big fan of distributed ID schemes, I like making comments and 'proving' I am the writer of said journal or owner of said site.
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Absolutely. When I got the comment it was 'which of my new batch of finds did I use?', but it's actually my original default. You play(ed)?

From: [identity profile] rhialto.livejournal.com


Ah, it is Next Generation. Then it is Good(tm).
As long as it is not an Enterprise Solution, those are soooo yesterday.
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