SAML Service Provider and Identity Provider - Fluid Topics - 3.7

Fluid Topics Integration Guide
Operating system
RHEL
Category
Reference Guides
Audience
public
Version
3.7

The notion of Service Provider (SP) and Identity Provider (IdP) is key to understand SAML secure authentication system.

SAML SP IdP

The role of the SP is filled by the Fluid Topics server. The role of the IdP is filled by SAML on the customer side.

Both the SP and the IdP use a private and a public key to communicate with each other:

  1. The SP sends a message to the IdP that has been encrypted with the IdP public key. The IdP decrypts the SP message by using the IdP private key.
  2. In return, the IdP sends a message to the SP that has been encrypted with the SP public key. The SP decrypts the IdP message by using the SP private key.

In order to validate the authentication configuration, the following is requested:

  • The SP must have access to the metadata.xml file generated by the IdP.
  • The IdP must have access to the metadata.xml file generated by the SP.

    SAML SP IDP Metadata