Explanation and examples of how to decrypt an encrypted SAML assertion with OpenSAML V3

Information and example on how to sign and send authnrequests in OpenSAML

Here is the happy news of the day. Verifying a signature in OpenSAML V3 is done almost identical to how it is done in V2, so the blog post on the process from OpenSAML V2 is still very much relevant and worth checking out. The only difference between the two version is that the SignatureValidator is no longer …

As many of you know, version 2 of OpenSAML will officially reach its end of life at July 31 of 2016. This means that the library will not be receiving any new updates, not even critical security updates. Because of this, everyone currently using version 2 of OpenSAML is strongly advised to migrate to OpenSAML version …

One notable thing that changed going from version 2 to 3 of OpenSAML is that the library was split in to. This first post on OpenSAML V3 try to help by linking to the javadoc of all different libraries

OpenSAML can be used to generate metadata. As with reading metadata, the library is pretty straight forward in relation to the metadata XML. This is an example for generating a SP metadata file We start by creating the EntityDescriptor, setting the EntityId and building the SSO descriptor. 1EntityDescriptor …