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Fedcloud-tf:WorkGroups:Federated AAI:Credential Translation

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Different technologies or approaches allow translating someone's federated identity to an X.509 credential.

  • STS is the Security Token Service (as defined in WS-Trust) allows translating one credential type to that of a different type.
  • Per-user sub-proxy is a mechanism where a robot certificate can advertise a change of identity.