Shibboleth is a federated web authentication and attribute exchange system based on SAML, originally developed by Internet2 and now a product of the Shibboleth Consortium. Please review the terms described in the LICENSE.txt file before using this code. It is the standard Apache 2.0 license. A wealth of information about Shibboleth can be found at http://shibboleth.net/ Shibboleth is divided into identity and service provider components, with the IdP (this software) in Java and the SP in C++. Source and binary distributions are available from http://shibboleth.net/downloads/ The source is available in Subversion, as described in the Shibboleth site. Mailing lists and a bug database (https://issues.shibboleth.net/) are also available. For basic information on building from source, using binaries, and deploying Shibboleth, refer to the web site and Wiki for the latest documentation.