When asking for support, you may be asked to share a SAML trace to assist the support team in understanding your problem. This document gives step-by-step instructions on how to create one. …

Halse, G . , (2018). "Trust & Identity Services: ORCID & SAFIRE". At SEALS Library Consortium, East London. 23 October 2018. …

This document intends to be a quick primer on SAML for those who want to get on with the rest of their todo list. SAML seems big and scary, because it has a lot of decisions and moving parts. But the reality is that many of these decisions have already been made for you, and you don’t need to know about the moving parts to make it work for you. Thus this primer attempts to distill out the most important bits in a way that’s easy to skim. …

Halse, G . , (2017). "ORCID and SAFIRE Integration". At 2017 ORCID South Africa Workshop, Kopanong Hotel & Conference Centre, Johannesburg. 24 October 2017. …

Halse, G. , (2017). "SAFIRE Workshop @ NATE 2017". At National ASAUDIT Technology Event (NATE) 2017, Mangosuthu University of Technology, Umlazi. 26 June 2017. Coetzee, D. , (2017). "Path to SAFIRE – A UCT Perspective". At National ASAUDIT Technology Event (NATE) 2017, Mangosuthu University of Technology, Umlazi. 26 June 2017. …

Halse, G. , (2017). "Sirtfi compliance of SAFIRE". …

Halse, G. , (2017). "Identity federation: A new way to manage access to resources". At SANLiC Conference 2017, Coastlands Hotel, Umhlanga. 24 May 2017. …

Halse, G. , (2017). "Benefits to South African research of SAFIRE's eduGAIN membership". At eResearch Africa 2017, Snape Building, University of Cape Town, Cape Town. 4 May 2017. …

Halse, G. , (2017). "Identity Federation in South Africa". At Sci-GaIA Final Event, CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria. 24 March 2017. …

This post documents SAFIRE’s experiments with, and ultimate deployment of, a smartcard-based HSM for SAML metadata signing in the hope that we can help other emerging federations along the way. …