RE: [security-services] RE: AuthenticationMethod / NameIdentifier andKerberos authentication

> Can somebody explain to me the reference to SSL in these 
> example classes ? Is this simply defining the channel 
> security protocol that was used somewhere during the user 
> authentication ? If so, where ? Between client and idP ?

Correct. Greg noted that the SP probably cares about the history as much as
anything else, but in terms of the current transaction, this is the part it
usually cares about, a lot more than what the IdP does with the password
behind his firewall.

-- Scott