See attribute assertion

A single piece of information associated with an electronic identity database

The identity information provided by an Identity Provider

The authoritative source for attributes.

A defined set of attributes to be released by an Identity Provider

The process by which a person verifies or confirms their affiliation with an electronic identifier

The process by which a person is granted access to a service. A Shibboleth Service Provider

A digital representation of information that uses a public key encryption

A certificate authority (CA) is an authority in a network that issues and manages certificates

Cookie-based single sign-on using Kerberos passwords. Shibboleth at U-M