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  • NOT NECESSARILY RELATED TO LOA: user-attributes - contains attributes of the user (principal)
    • attrib - subject to the attribute release policy associated with this service - basically the same as the attributes in the SAML validation response
  • loa-number - the maximum number associated with any of the satisfied levels of assurance
  • levels-satisfied - list of the names of all assurance levels that were satisfied by the users's current session
    • level - the name of the level of assurance
  • MAYBE: auth-handlers - list of all auth handlers that have successfully authenticated for the user's current session (i.e. authentication objects) - note: this might not be needed or desired
    • auth-handler - an individual auth handler; the "name" XML attribute contains the name
      • attrib - each attribute in the authentication object can be listed here.  probably require deployer to specify which attributes should be released, or maybe include a release policy for registered services similar to that for user attributes
Jérôme :
Yes, it would be great to return user attributes.
Regarding LOA, I would return the current LOA of the user with numeric value and names, and I would add the authentication handler name used to authenticate the user.
But I thought we wanted to add these information to the SAML validation, not to the CAS one, to keep backward compatibility...

Nathan:
It would probably be fine to go that route (i.e. support the new LOA stuff only within SAML), but there was talk on the cas-dev mailing list about possibly coming out with a new revision of the CAS protocol (probably listening at a different URL), to add these types of things.

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Jérôme :
I agree, it would be great to improve CAS validation response, we have to try to get an agreement on that....

VI. Use cases

A) 2 webapps supporting remember-me and authentication by credentials / client requested LOA

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