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Stanford OpenID Connect

Stanford University IdPs support OpenID Connect, which can be used for the following use cases:

Confidential clients:

The OpenID Connect protocol is provided by the same Shibboleth IdP instance that also supports SAML.

Features

Some common features with both OIDC and SAML include

  • Usage of the same underlying user accounts and attribute information
  • A user will see the same login user interface
  • All applications are required to use 2-step authentication
  • Cardinal Keys will work for both

There are also some differences:

  • Some attribute names(claims) are different
  • OIDC relying party has a password component which expires in a year
  • OIDC requires user consent for releasing attributes (claims)

Requirements

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See also

SAML (Authentication)

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