Shibboleth Project
Internet 2,
Oct 30, 2002
A news release distributed Wednesday (but not yet available on the website) announced a successful test of Shibboleth, a system that "enables inter-institutional sharing of web resources subject to access controls, as is often required in classes offered jointly by multiple universities. It permits off-campus students with broadband connections to access licensed, digital-library content transparently, CRLFand allows scientists and faculty to share research web sites securely with remote colleagues." The idea is that the student's home campus provides inform ation about the student ("attribute assertions"), and this information is then used to grant access to resources at the remote university. It's an interesting idea, and yet very different from the system for resource sharing that we are working on. Thanks to CA-Net News for the release.
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