JISC

Abstract

SimpleSAMLphp is an alternative implementation of a SAML Service Provider and Identity Provider. During autumn 2009, SimpleSAMLphp has gained increased interoperability and ease of use in Shibboleth-based federation like UK Access Federation. Andreas will present more details about the software, how it can be used in UK Access Federations, and some cool and interesting features that you will find nowhere else than in SimpleSAMLphp.

Presenter

Andreas Solberg

Andreas Åkre Solberg has been a Researcher in UNINETT since 2004. He is involved in several research activities on authentication and authorization infrastructures, and currently leads the research activity Identity Federations within the pan-European research programme GÉANT3. He has been part of the Feide project, and worked with Identity Systems since the beginning of 2006. Prior to that, he worked with passive network monitoring in the department of research and development in UNINETT. Andreas graduated from the department of telemathics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim in 2004 with an MSc in communication technology specializing in teletraffic engineering.