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  Shibboleth Introduction
Shibboleth is an initiative to develop an open, standards-based solution to the needs for organizations to exchange information about their users in a secure, and privacy-preserving manner.
Shibboleth will use OpenSAML for the message and assertion formats, and protocol bindings which is based on Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) developed by the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee.
Shibboleth has defined a standard set of attributes; the first set is based on the eduPerson object class that includes widely-used person attributes in higher education.
shibboleth.internet2.edu /shib-intro.html   (438 words)

  
  Shibboleth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Finnish phoneme rolled R [r] in general is considered a "shibboleth" between normality and various types of speech defects.
In the TV series "West Wing" in an episode appropriately titled "Shibboleth", President Josiah Bartlet (Martin Sheen) utilizes knowledge of the Biblical term to determine whether a group of supposedly Christian Chinese refugees are legitimate in their desire for seeking religious freedom.
A Polish shibboleth is W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie (in Szczebrzeszyn the beetle skirls in the reed).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shibboleth   (4423 words)

  
 shibboleth - definition by dict.die.net
shibboleth n 1: a favorite saying of a sect or political group [syn: motto, slogan, catchword] 2: a manner of speaking that is distinctive of a particular group of people
shibb[=o]leth an ear of corn, or a stream, a flood.] 1.
The tribes living on the east of Jordan, separated from their brethren on the west by the deep ravines and the rapid river, gradually came to adopt peculiar customs, and from mixing largely with the Moabites, Ishmaelites, and Ammonites to pronounce certain letters in such a manner as to distinguish them from the other tribes.
dict.die.net /shibboleth   (244 words)

  
 What is Shibboleth? - Cardiff University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Shibboleth is an architecture that enables organisations to build single sign-on environments that allow users to access web-based resources using a single login.
Shibboleth uses open standards (such as SAML) and was developed by the Internet2 middleware group.
By using Shibboleth, the information is exchanged in a secure manner, protecting both the security of the data and the privacy of the individual.
www.cardiff.ac.uk /schoolsanddivisions/divisions/insrv/eresources/shibboleth/whatisshibboleth.html   (372 words)

  
 Shibboleth
Leghorn: Allegedly, this word was used as a shibboleth during a war between the Chinese and Japanese, since the Japanese pronounced it as 'reghorn' (not being able to pronounce l), and the Chinese as 'legholn' (not being able to say English r).
The Spanish word perejil (parsley) was used as a shibboleth by Dominican Republic strongman Trujillo.
Professor Tolkien referred to the change of fl (SAMPA T) to s in his Elvish Quenya language as the Shibboleth of Fëanor, for the King's son Fëanor considered this decided change as an insult to his dead mother fierindë who was now generally referred to as Serindë.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/s/sh/shibboleth.html   (397 words)

  
 Shibboleth: Identity the Internet Way :: Digital Identity World :: Digital Identity, Identity Management
Shibboleth is in late Alpha testing for its first release, and when the envisioned architecture is fully implemented it will be a very complete and flexible identity infrastructure.
Shibboleth started a couple of years ago with some informal discussions about ways of approaching the problem of cross-domain or inter-organizational web access control.
In Shibboleth we separated the technical architecture (what the messages look like, what the different components are, how they speak to each other, etc.) from the policy side of it, which we are currently calling Clubs.
www.digitalidworld.com /article.php?id=90   (2148 words)

  
 'Shibboleth Installation Workshop', Ariadne Issue 42
Shibboleth technology, developed by Internet2 [2], is the most up-to-date open source software under development that can be used for developing middleware architectures.
Shibboleth is a standards-based protocol for securely transferring user credentials and attributes (information about the user and the resource the user wants to access) between the user's home site (e.g.
There was an acknowledgement that configuring Shibboleth did require a high level of technical expertise and that this may be a barrier to the rate of future deployment.
www.ariadne.ac.uk /issue42/shibboleth-rpt   (1074 words)

  
 Carnegie Mellon Libraries: Services: Shibboleth Pilot Project
Shibboleth is a potential alternative to IP-address restriction that will improve access to e-resources.
Shibboleth is an alternative to currently-used IP address restriction.
Shibboleth is more flexible than IP recognition--it recognizes authorized users rather than their computers.
www.library.cmu.edu /Services/shib.html   (416 words)

  
 Shibboleth ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
Shibboleths can also be customs or practices, such as male circumcision, or a signifier, such as a semiotic.
One of these was pronouncing the gerund suffix -ing as it is spelled, rhyming with sing, whereas both the lower and upper classes pronounced it as -in, rhyming with sin.
Many educational institutions adopted a federated approach - such as Shibboleth - which leaves identity management in the hands of the institutions (and which, pointedly, does not operate outside the federation, that is, not outside the institutions in question).
www.downes.ca /cgi-bin/page.cgi?topic=20   (1662 words)

  
 'Shibboleth' Relieves Password Overload, Enhances Computer Privacy
Gettes was so concerned that he has helped develop a software system, called Shibboleth, that will relieve password overload and enhance privacy protections at the same time.
Shibboleth is named for the first known password, described in the Bible's Book of Judges.
Shibboleth was introduced in 2003 by the Middleware Architecture Committee for Education of the Internet2 consortium that operates the high-speed Internet for higher education.
www.dukenews.duke.edu /2004/09/shibboleth_0904.html   (937 words)

  
 UKERNA AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORISATION DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
Shibboleth is an open source based initiative developed by the Internet2 community in the United States to facilitate the sharing of web resources that are subject to access control.
Shibboleth is able to protect both the security of the data and the privacy of the individual viewing it.
A technical evaluation of integrating Shibboleth with the JANET Videoconferencing Booking System has been produced by the University of Edinburgh and is available in pdf.
www.ukerna.ac.uk /development/aa/shib/index.html   (231 words)

  
 NSDL / Shibboleth / Columbia University
Shibboleth is a superior system for allowing users to login to secure resources, because it provides a high level of privacy by allowing communities to set their own Attribute Release Policies.
Shibboleth will use OpenSAML for the message and assertion formats, and protocol bindings, which is based on Security Assertion Language (SAML) developed by the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee.
Shibboleth has defined a standard set of attributes; the first set is based on the eduPerson object class that includes common attributes related to users in higher education.
www.columbia.edu /~jb701/nsdl/shib_exp.html   (1516 words)

  
 Thames Valley University, Shibboleth project
Shibboleth is an open source and open standards method of enabling institutions to manage authentication whilst service providers deal with authorisation.
Shibboleth technology will offer a means by which TVU can authenticate individuals and then pass the information about them to service providers whilst maintaining complete privacy for the individual.
Using Shibboleth technology will reduce the amount of administrative effort and the number of passwords in use whilst improving security and ease of access.
www.tvu.ac.uk /shibboleth/About_Shibboleth.jsp   (125 words)

  
 Shibboleth | EDUCAUSE CONNECT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Shibboleth is an authorisation standard from internet2, built on existing standards, it's key strengths are that it allows institutions and resource or service providers to be completely decoupled.
Shibboleth is the next wave of authentication and authorisation software from the Internet2 crowd.
Shibboleth allows fine-grain control over which groups of people have access to what information, and because it can be truly distributed, without a "main server," no institution has to hand over unnecessary data to another institution.
connect.educause.edu /folksonomy/shibboleth   (1250 words)

  
 Shibboleth: Private Mailing List Manager
Shibboleth was conceived in early 1995, as a system that would allow a group of people to communicate freely with one another, without concern about outsiders being able to infiltrate the group or to address the group by impersonating one of its members.
Shibboleth has managed to avoid falling victim to the abusive behavior that is sadly becoming increasingly popular on the Internet today.
This allows the system running Shibboleth to share the burden of running the list: one machine can receive all of the incoming messages and handle that processing; another can be used to send all of the outbound messages.
www.interhack.net /pubs/shibboleth   (6024 words)

  
 shibboleth - OneLook Dictionary Search
SHIBBOLETH : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
SHIBBOLETH : Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE [home, info]
Words similar to shibboleth: catchword, motto, slogan, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=shibboleth&ls=a   (276 words)

  
 edutrip2005: Identity Management in Action: How Campuses Are Using Shibboleth to Solve Today's Access Problems   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Shibboleth is gebaseerd op open source en maakt gebruik van federaties om 'scalable trust' te bewerkstelligen.
Shibboleth is ingezet (ook weer als proof of concept) voor registratie van Katrina-evacuees in een medische database.
Shibboleth is momenteel webbased, maar er wordt gewerkt aan een versie die in een Grid-omgeving kan werken.
www.edusite.nl /edutrip2005/dv_infrastructure/15152/printversie   (246 words)

  
 E-NOTES, SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2002 -- SHIBBOLETH
In the Old Testament, "shibboleth" was a password used to prevent Ephraimites from intruding into the Gileadite camp.
If a soldier pronounced "shibboleth" incorrectly, the Gileadites knew he was a member of the Ephraimite army and disposed of him immediately.
If the project is successful and Shibboleth is implemented, Georgetown faculty members working from home and seeking an article from an Elsevier journal would be able to bypass Dahlgren Library's preliminary registration process or Lauinger Library's proxy server solution and be authorized directly by the publisher.
uis.georgetown.edu /publications/enotes/sepoct02/shibboleth.html   (345 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Shibboleth is an open-source, standards-based tool providing mechanisms for controlling access to web based resources (particularly in inter-institution use), while offering options for protecting personal privacy.
The Shibboleth target will run with the Apache 2.0 Web server as well as the previously supported Apache 1.3.x, and IIS 5.x and 6.
Shibboleth v1.2.1 is a bug-fix release intended to address stability, major bugs, and small issues that have arisen in the last 6 months.
www.nsf-middleware.org /Lists/NMIR6/DispForm.aspx?ID=7   (317 words)

  
 IT Services: Shibboleth Project
Shibboleth is an Internet2 consortium project that solves this problem by creating a concept of federated identity management.
Any set of parties who use Shibboleth can create a trust relationship between their authentication systems, and service providers (websites that require authentication) can allow access not only to users with local authenticated credentials, but can trust users with credentials from federated authentication services as well.
Shibboleth may also turn out to be the best answer for providing WebAuth-like service to Windows servers running IIS, as Shib has a more mature Windows presence than WebAuth does.
www.stanford.edu /dept/its/projects/shibboleth   (471 words)

  
 Jeremy Smith's blog: Entries Labelled "Shibboleth"
The Shibboleth layer should actually extend further upwards into the Identity Service Provider layer, but hey, this is the best graphical representation I've seen as to how some of the different Federated Identity standards inter-relate.
Easier to manage user experience, consolidation of web login services, decoupling of authentication architectures of independent applications, and future-proofing applications to the future of "identity" are the reasons an SSO system is useful, important, and why others would want to leverage it with their own systems.
Let me tell you a Shibboleth is a beautiful article outlining the needs for Federated Identity and Open Access (in some form) for Higher Ed.
blog.case.edu /jms18/shibboleth/index   (2940 words)

  
 Shibboleth: Connecting People and Resources; Briefing paper version 2 : JISC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Shibboleth, which is a product of the US’s Internet2 initiative, has emerged as the front-runner for the most widely adopted standards-based approach.
To separate friend from foe, those crossing the river were asked to pronounce the word ‘shibboleth’ (it means an ear of corn).
Shibboleth relies on locally-used identity credentials, which are also likely to provide access to personal information such as library holdings or email.
www.jisc.ac.uk /publications/publications/pub_shibboleth.aspx   (1220 words)

  
 New York University - Darwin Streaming Server and Shibboleth Integration - Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Shibboleth (http://shibboleth.internet2.edu) is a federated authentication and attribute architecture, which allows Shibboleth Enabled Target sites the ability to query Shibboleth Enabled Origin sites, which are administered by participating institutions.
Authentication utilizes Shibboleth's login process because many media players simply do not have HTML renderers, and the extended requirements for authentication on players is rarely customizable without rewriting the player.
This archive is for use with Shibboleth 1.1.
dlib.nyu.edu /~ro15/shib   (3145 words)

  
 Shibboleth [OCLC]
Shibboleth utilizes the existing campus identity and access management infrastructures to authenticate individuals for access to restricted digital content and secure online services.
Shibboleth is built on a fabric of trust relationships codified in federations made of institutions and resource holders with parallel needs and interests.
The Shibboleth project was supported with funding from several large libraries, the Internet/2 and the NSF Middleware Initiative.
www.oclc.org /middleeast/en/productworks/shibboleth.htm   (375 words)

  
 Condor Shibboleth Integration Project Homepage
The Shibboleth system provides a standards-based link between existing campus authentication systems and resource providers of all kinds.
For example, when a student requests access to a protected video clip, her home organization (origin site) requests her to authenticate (if she has not done so already) and then passes on the information that she is enrolled in Biology 562 to the site housing the video.
Because only information (attributes about the person requesting authentication) is exchanged, the Shibboleth system allows institutions with different technology architectures and security systems to easily collaborate without using proxies or managing thousands of external or transitory accounts.
hendrix.arc.georgetown.edu /condor-shib/components.htm   (584 words)

  
 Grid Ecosystem - Shibboleth
Designed with universities, corporations, and government agencies in mind, Shibboleth allows organizations to participate in the authentication and authorization of their individual members (e.g., faculty, students, emplyees) when those members use services provided by external agencies (e.g., commercial or government services).
Shibboleth makes use of local authentication systems at "home institutions" (the organization where an individual user works or goes to school) in cooperation with local Shibboleth services to inform remote services of the validity of requests by local users to use the services.
Shibboleth services on remote web servers intercept user requests and (if the user is not recognized as a known user) work with the user to determine their home institution.
www.globus.org /grid_software/security/shibboleth.php   (287 words)

  
 Shibboleth at UVa
Shibboleth is an inter-institutional authentication and authorization system developed by Internet2's Middleware initiative group.
You can test your Computing ID and password here to verify that you will be able to use the Shibboleth application.
These pages are expected to represent the University of Virginia community and the State of Virginia in a professional manner in accordance with the University of Virginia’s Computing Policies.
www.itc.virginia.edu /csd/shibboleth   (276 words)

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