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Shibboleth in Finnish Higher Education
Organisations
E-ICOLC 2005
Poznan, Poland
HAKA FEDERATION
federation for Finnish higher education
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formed in May 2005
cooperation between
Finnish HE
organisations and CSC
(Finnish IT center for
science)
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aim to provide interorganisational network
services
protocol chosen =
Shibboleth
• six universities have
signed the federation
agreement
– common set of policies and
rules
• federation member can act as
1. home organisation
– maintains identity information
of end users
– authentication
– up-to date user identity
management system
2. service provider
– provides services
HAKA FEDERATION
federation for Finnish higher education
identity providers
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University of Helsinki
Tampere University of
Technology
Helsinki University of
Technology
authentication
service providers
– Nelli-portal
– A&O learning management
system
– JOOPAS (electronic circulation
of applications for visiting
student in another university)
– CSC's extranet for Funet
member organisations
 authorisation
Nelli portal (MetaLib/SFX)
Resources
• e-journals, reference
databases, e-books,
reference works
• library catalogues
Users
• universities (21),
polytechnics (31)
• public libraries
– over 400 public libraries
– 20 regional libraries
– Central public library
Advantages
• secure, privacy-preserved manner of exchanging
information (safe from attacks)
• possibility for more tailored services
 based on user roles (attributes)
• single sign-on to services regardless of the
organisation who produces them
• the more services available the more benefit for
users
 single sign-on
Advantages
• remote use
• service providers need not maintain user
registers
 can take advantage of user’s home organisation’s
registers
• when publishers choose Shibboleth
 no more ip numbers needed for authorisation