Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Shibboleth Update a.k.a. shibble-ware

Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
This is a great presentation, the clearest dscription of Shibboleth - a system that shares user authentication between participating universities - that I've seen. Especially useful is Slide 7 (be sure to view this in presentation mode) which shows step by step how the parts of Shibboleth interact. There's a lot to like about Shibboleth, but what I don't like is that it is more or less a closed network and that a user's identity is handled by, and distributed by, the university system. What we need is a home Shibboleth, a desktop application readers can run themselves without the need for a (very expensive) university enrollment. Via EDUCAUSE.

Today: 3 Total: 29 [Direct link] [Share]

Image from the website


Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
stephen@downes.ca

Copyright 2024
Last Updated: Dec 26, 2024 9:39 p.m.

Canadian Flag Creative Commons License.

Force:yes