Glossary#
- AAI#
Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure
- Card#
A Card is a physical medium, often made of plastic, that
- Credential#
documentary or electronic evidence that a person has certain status or privileges
- ECCA#
European Campus Card Association
- eduGAIN#
interfederation of AAI identity federations around the world
- eduPerson#
- ESC#
European Student Card
- ESCI#
European Student Card Initiative
- ESCP#
European Student Card Project
- ESI#
European Student Identifier
- EUGLOH#
European University Alliance for Global Health
- GDPR#
- HCE#
Host Card Emulation
- HEI#
- HEIs#
Higher Education Institution
- ID#
Identity Document / Identification - a document which may be used to prove a person’s identity
- IDM#
Identity Management
- IdP#
Shibboleth Identity Provider
- ISCED#
- LDAP#
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
- LMU#
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- MaSA#
Mandant Specific Application
- OAUTH2#
Open Authorization Protocol (Version 2) as published via RFC6749 and RFC6750
- OIDC#
Open ID Connect
- Pass#
- Wallet Pass#
A (Wallet) Pass is a virtual representation of a card. It is context-less readable. It includes a visual design, a data structure, security mechanisms and visual personal data (photo, name..). The passport resides in a wallet in the smartphone.
- Provider#
an organization who provides offers for tappers on site using reading terminals and connected technology.
- SAML#
Security Assertion Markup Language
- SCHAC#
- Service#
A service is the collected offer of a provider that is accessible via a pass.
- Shibboleth#
Shibboleth is a set of Software components provided by the Shibboleth Consortium, to provide a federated single-sign-on system / AAI. Shibboleth software components are:
Identity Provider
Service Provider
Embedded Discovery Service (previously known as “Where are you from” (WAYF) Service)
Metadata Aggregator
- SP#
Shibboleth Service Provider
- SSI#
Self Sovereignty Identity
- Tapper#
a natural is a person who uses the offers of the providers with their smartphone and the passes stored in it using the reader terminal.
- Vault#
A digital vault is a large secure date store. It is derived from the term vault that describes a secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store valuables. The noun safe or safe-deposit box, describing a box, usually made of metal, fireproof, in which personal valuables can be locked for safekeeping is a related term.
In German the Terms: Tresorraum, Tresor, Schließfach
- Wallet#
In Context of this Project is a digital Wallet a smartphone application that acts as a container for Passes. It is derived from the term wallet that describes a small case, often flat and made of leather, for keeping money, credit cards and identification documents