What is Shibboleth?
Universities, companies and government agencies are increasinging conducting business and collaborating via online resources. It is common for users to access online resources both inside and outside their organizations to do their work. In the past, each of these services required its own ID and password and, for the user, that meant another loginID and password to remember. For the institution, managing these edge-population accounts was labor- and time-intensive.
Shibboleth was developed specifically to address the challenges of:
- multiple passwords required for multiple applications
- scaling the account management of multiple applications
- security issues associated with accessing third-party services
- privacy
- interoperability within and across organizational boundaries
- enabling institutions to choose their authentication technology
- enabling service providers to control access to their resources
Shibboleth is a standards based, open source software package for web single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries. It allows online resources to make informed authorization decisions for individual access in a privacy-preserving manner.
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