12.4.1. Hints for Assertion Content

Use the following hints to adjust settings on the Assertion Content tab page.

Signing and Encryption

Request/Response Signing

Specifies what parts of messages the service provider requires the identity provider to sign digitally.

Encryption

The identity provider must encrypt selected elements.

Certificate Aliases

Specifies aliases for certificates in the OpenAM key store that are used to handle digital signatures, and to handle encrypted messages.

NameID Format

NameID Format List

Specifies the supported name identifiers for users that are shared between providers for single sign on. If no name identifier is specified when initiating single sign on, then the service provider uses the first one in the list supported by the identity provider.

Disable Federation persistence if NameID Format is unspecified

When enabled, the NameID Format in the authentication response is urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:unspecified, and the Account Mapper has identified the local user, the service provider does not persist federation information in the user profile.

Authentication Context

Mapper

Specifies a class that implements the SPAuthnContextMapper interface and sets up the authentication context.

Default Authentication Context

Specifies the authentication context used if no authentication context specified in the request.

Supported Contexts

Specifies the supported authentication contexts. The Level corresponds to an authentication module authentication level.

Comparison Type

How the authentication context in the assertion response must compare to the supported contexts.

Assertion Time

Assertion Time Skew

Grace period in seconds for the NotBefore time in assertions.

Basic Authentication

Enabled, User Name, Password

When enabled, authenticate with the specified user name and password at SOAP end points.