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Introducing
“Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand”.
(Judges 12:5-6, KJV)
Notes:
This talk aims to introduce the Shibboleth web authentication/authorization framework and its intended deployment in the UK academic community and the University.
Shibboleth named after an event in the bible where the inability to pronounce 'sh' (as in 'shoe') was used to distinguish members of one tribe from another, with unfortunate consequences for those who couldn't.