Configuring Communication Security for Liberty

Liberty and SAML 1.1 have the same security options for the SOAP back channel for both identity and service providers. You cannot configure the trust relationship of the SOAP back channel for Identity Server and its Embedded Service Providers.

  1. Click Devices > Identity Servers > Edit > [Protocol].

  2. Click the name of a provider.

  3. On the Trust page, specify the following details:

    Name: Specify the display name for this trusted provider. The default name is the name you entered when creating the trusted provider.

    For an Embedded Service Provider, the Name option is the only available option on the Trust page.

    The Security section specifies how to validate messages received from trusted providers over the SOAP back channel. Both the identity provider and the service provider in the trusted relationship must be configured to use the same security method.

  4. Select one of the following security methods:

    Message Signing: Relies upon message signing using a digital signature.

    Mutual SSL: Specifies that this trusted provider provides a digital certificate (mutual SSL) when it sends a SOAP message.

    SSL communication requires only the client to trust the server. For mutual SSL, the server must also trust the client. For the client to trust the server, the server’s certificate authority (CA) certificate must be imported into the client trust store. For the server to trust the client, the client’s CA certificate must be imported into the server trust store.

    Basic Authentication: Specifies standard header-based authentication. This method assumes that a name and password for authentication are sent and received over the SOAP back channel.

    • Send: The name and password to be sent for authentication to the trusted partner. The partner expects this password for all SOAP back-channel requests, which means that the name and password must be agreed upon.

    • Verify: The name and password used to verify data that the trusted provider sends.

  5. Click OK > OK.

  6. Update Identity Server.