Re: [security-services] Correction to my diatribe about assertion Subjects on last call

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@ate Llingenstein
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2008-11-20T20:24:55+00:00
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Re: [security-services] Correction to my diatribe about assertion Subjects on last call
What happens, for example, if the request contains a holder-of-key
 
<SubjectConfirmation> element in ordinary Web Browser SSO or a bearer
 
<SubjectConfirmation> element in HoK Web Browser SSO?  In the latter
 
case, that seems to say that both bearer and holder-of-key
 
<SubjectConfirmation> elements MUST be included.
 

 
In the latter case, well, you *could* just say the same thing, or if you
 
still want to permit it, if you did ask for bearer, then, yes, you'd get
 
both.
 

I think returning an assertion with both <SubjectConfirmation> methods is the best choice when the request issuer explicitly asks for bearer confirmation and the IdP is comfortable issuing such an assertion.  There's enough explicit explanatory text in the profile that I think implementors and deployers would be aware of the consequences.