Dear colleagues,
The InCommon Technical Advisory Committee wants your help bringing a “good
practice” approach to research and education (R&E) identity federation.
Would you please join me on Tuesday, May 7, at 1:00 PM UTC, to plan how we
might accomplish this? We will rough out a regular meeting schedule and
set some immediate goals for the Federation Readiness Check working group
then. (See below/attached for meeting details.)
A significant roadblock for new R&E community members is validating their
identity provider (IdP) or service provider (SP) deployments. Current good
federation practice involves an overwhelming variety of expectations,
standards, entity categories, frameworks, profiles, and more. There exists
no single, comprehensive resource for operational guidance and integration
testing. What documentation or test resources exist are difficult to find
even for experienced IAM professionals, are typically restricted to
federation members, and are focused almost exclusively on IdPs. While the
decentralized nature of R&E federation allows it to scale far beyond
current commercial offerings, that same decentralization makes enacting
meaningful change to IdP, SP, or federation operations seemingly
impossible. A scorecard would be a powerful tool for change.
Federation Readiness Check Working Group membership is open to the public.
Please feel free to forward this invitation to anyone you think would be
interested. Our initial meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, at
1:00 PM UTC via Zoom (
https://researchdata-us.zoom.us/j/81548511164?pwd=Uzh3UTXMdmldUWMK3pPWd85mr…)
We will continue the discussion on the fedtestwg mailing list (
https://lists.incommon.org/sympa/info/fedtestwg) and the
#inc-fed-ready-check-wg Slack channel (https://internet2.slack.com/)
Working group materials will be posted to the Internet2 Confluence wiki (
https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/inctac/federation-readiness-check-wg
).
Please note that as an Internet2 Activity, the Internet2 Intellectual
Property Policy applies the working group (
https://internet2.edu/community/about-us/policies/internet2-intellectual-pr…)
Please direct any Internet2 policy questions to legal(a)internet2.edu.
Best wishes,
Matthew
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Research Data and Communication Technologies
P.O. Box 81 Garrett Park, MD 20896 USA
Office: +1 (301) 760-7383 x813
Mobile: +1 (513) 445-2323
Email: meconomou(a)researchdata.us
Hello,
I have two questions, if you don't mind:
1. I have a *LogoutResponse* via redirect (HTTP GET) as follows:
*/logout?SAMLResponse=...&Signature=...&SigAlg=...
*. This type of message originates from EntraID (formerly Azure).
This *SAMLResponse* does not internally contain a signature. How can I
check the signature since *parse_logout_request_response* doesn't accept
SigAlg and Signature parameters, unlike *parse_logout_request*?
2. Secondly, if my *LogoutResponse* is like */logout?SAMLResponse* (without
SigAlg or Signature parameters), how can I be sure that it contains a valid
signature? Can I rely on *want_assertions_or_response_signed*, which is
used in *AuthnResponse*, but not in *LogoutResponse(StatusResponse)*?
Thank you,
Hello idpy contributors!
Roland and I are stepping down from the idpy board, and four other seats are up for election with board members interested in continuing. This leaves us with five seats up for election for the 2024-2026 term.
We have several individuals interested in joining the board and are looking for your feedback.
Incumbent nominees:
• Ivan Kanakarakis (SUNET, lead architect for Satosa, pySAML)
• Chris Whalen (individual contributor)
• Mike Jones (OIDF, author of OIDC and JWT and OAuth)
New nominees:
• Fresia Pérez Arriagada (SUNET)
• Jakob Schlyter (Kirei)
• Warren Anderson (LIGO)
Leif Johansson (SUNET) and Christos Kanellopoulos (GÉANT) are in the middle of their 2023-2025 terms; those seats are up for election next year.
Please go to the following Zoom survey link by 18 March 2024 to place your votes for five (5) board members.
Thanks! Heather
Sorry for the delay.
*Idpy meeting 20 February 2024*
Attendees: Johan W., Johan L., Alex Perez-Mendez, Shayna, Ivan, Roland,
Mikael Frykholm, Björn Mattsson
0 - Agenda bash
1 - Demo
- Roland gave a demo of the wallet ecosystem he has built following the
Italian profile.
- The profile from Italy:
https://italia.github.io/eudi-wallet-it-docs/versione-corrente/en/
- The proposed generalized version (regardless of the country):
https://github.com/WalletInteroperabilityLab/eudi-wif
- We did not record Roland's live demo, but he has recorded a similar
demo at https://youtu.be/pQk0pEzKPQo?si=NR2lk_2ckfQBwZ7H
2 - Project review
a. General -
b. OIDC libraries - https://github.com/IdentityPython (idpy-oidc,
JWTConnect-Python-CryptoJWT, etc)
- Roland has been writing a description of the steps required to stand
up a federation using his software, and how to add another entity to the
federation, different topologies of the federation, and so on. He has a
first cut available.
- Björn Mattsson mentioned that they have been using this document to
try and get a federation up on the SWAMID side (I'm sorry, I missed the
specific project name this was for), building a Docker image to run the
different parts. They will provide feedback to Roland about using it this
way.
- based on federvice repo (https://github.com/rohe/fedservice)
- Can also be used in Core AAI, educational use case
- AARC people are also looking at this to use cross-infra exchange of
tokens. OIDC but using the federations to build trust. A client
can talk to
a resource server from another domain because that server talks to an
issuer that is part of a federated network, which trusts the
issuer of the
client.
c. Satosa - https://github.com/IdentityPython/SATOSA
- Matthew has put up PR -
https://github.com/IdentityPython/SATOSA/pull/454
- github actions added to workflow (continuous integration): clones
the repo, sets up python and anything else needed, and runs
linting with
pre-commit hooks to include flake8
- also runs basic yaml and whitespace cleanup
- developer can install precommit hook - then any got commit
command will do flake8 checks as project has defined
- same checks get run by github actions if developer forgets or
chooses to not install pre-commit
- currently flake8 config is in tox.ini and setup.cfg - that
should be stripped and flake8 config should be put in its own file
- goal: to get everything that was done in travis into github
actions (including syntax checks, style checks using isort and python
black, test phases/pytest, deploy to pypi, etc). Would like
to also add
automated container image updates for SATOSA eventually. No
credentials
need to be hardcoded when interfacing with pypi (when we get to that).
- There should be discussion on whether to merge things in pieces
or in one big PR. It is possible to bypass pre-commit hooks and github
actions will only put a "this doesn't work" badge on commits
that don't the
match flake8 checks, for this particular PR. Next the isort and python
black would probably be best to do in one PR that touches all
files, but
may affect other PRs that are out there (ask developers to rebase?).
d. pySAML2 - https://github.com/IdentityPython/pysaml2
e. Any other project (pyFF, djangosaml2, pyMDOC-CBOR, etc)
2 - AOB
*Idpy meeting 6 February 2024*
Attendees: Johan W, Johan L, Shayna, Roland, Hannah, Matthew E.
0 - Agenda bash
1 - Project review
a. General -
b. OIDC libraries - https://github.com/IdentityPython (idpy-oidc,
JWTConnect-Python-CryptoJWT, etc)
- From the TIIME conference, it is clear that the wallet project will be
used in different pilots, and different requirements will be handled
through configuration
- Roland will put out one instance of this project soon, including
federation pieces and the credential issuer.
- There is a Greek wallet implementation - wwwallet - they are trying
to get it to work together with Roland's project. They had to add quite a
bit of functionality to their implementation.
- Another part of the wallet ecosystem is the verifier or relying
party - the spec is very complex and not stable yet. No one wants to
implement it since it will probably change. Some people have come up with
something much simpler. Roland will implement something like this to be
able to verify what is in the wallet.
- Real wallet examples: EC for EU project world package 5 - social
security - Denmark, Germany, Austria? - pilot for issuing
credentials. The
approaches were very different in discussions - Roland more
concerned about
how the information gets transferred securely; the other parties more
concerned about what information to distribute.
- They also brought up the problem of when the person who is
described in the wallet is not the person who holds the
wallet. Parent /
child for example. This is not handled in the spec currently.
- For idpy-oidc: Roland has a PR he would like reviewed by
Giuseppe and Ivan - then will make a new release
- When you post an authorization request you can specify who the
audience of the token is, but the idpy implementation was not
handling that
correctly. That fix will be part of the new release.
c. Satosa - https://github.com/IdentityPython/SATOSA
d. pySAML2 - https://github.com/IdentityPython/pysaml2
e. Any other project (pyFF, djangosaml2, pyMDOC-CBOR, etc)
2 - AOB
- idpy board meeting took place at the TIIME conference.
- There is discussion on having more than one person to be responsible
for each of the projects / packages.
- Roland would like to switch roles to be an adviser rather than
responsible for the projects he is working on.
- Tentatively planning a demo from Roland at the meeting on 20th
February
