pyFF 0.9.4

Federation Feeder

python SAML metadata aggregator

This is a SAML metadata aggregator written in python. It is based on the model for metadata exchange by Ian Young: http://iay.org.uk/blog/2008/10/metadata_interc.html

• http://github.com/leifj/pyFF
• http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyFF
• http://packages.python.org/pyFF

Features

• Pluggable “pipelines” for processing SAML metadata
• Signature validation and creation
• Support for using PKCS#11 tokens for signing
• Certificate expiration checking and reporting
• Fast parallel fetching of multiple streams

Dependencies

• pyXMLSecurity
• PyKCS11 (optional)

News

0.1

Release date: UNRELEASED

• This is the first unreleased version of the code
• http://github.com/leifj/pyFF

0.4

Release date: Tue Jul 10 15:48:07 CEST 2012

• Schema validation
• Refactor dynamic loading framework

0.5

Release date: Wed Jul 11 16:31:06 CEST 2012

• XML signing and validation using http://pypi.python.org/pypi/dm.xmlsec.binding (requires M2Crypto at present)

Because of the way OpenSSL handles self-signed certificates the XML validation extracts the public key from the certificate and uses that instead of the X509 certificate to validate an XML signature. Right now this introduces a dependency on M2Crypto which will be removed in the fugure. Note that ubuntu/debian users should install python-m2crypto instead of installing M2Crypto (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=637904)

0.6

Release date: Thu Aug 30 08:00:00 CEST 2012

• XML signing and validation using pyXMLSecurity
• Support for PKCS#11-based HSMs using pykcs11

We are now using a (limited) pure-python implmementation of xmlsec which makes it easier to sign using HSMs. The only mandatory non-python dependency now is lxml.

0.7

Release date: Fri Sep 7 10:13:33 CEST 2012

• support breaking out of pipelines using exceptions
• kill the pipeline if selects picks 0 elements
• more debug logging
• more robust handling of zero-length selectors
• completely remove pyOpenSSL dependency
• many bugfixes and cleanup

0.8

Release date: Fri Nov 30 09:37:59 CET 2012

• HTTP-based pyffd with MDX support
• several bugfixes
• indexing in MDRepository
• completely rewritten URL fetcher with monitoring

0.9 and 0.9.1

Release date: Tue Apr 9 18:03:13 CEST 2013

• Lots of bugfixes
• pep8 cleanup
• stability & testcases

0.9.2

• Release date: Mon Apr 15 13:19:14 CEST 2013*
• caching in pyffd now works
• version information on cmdline
• ‘remove’ merge strategy from Peter S
• cleanup & bugfixes

0.9.3

• Release date: Wed May 15 12:09:57 CEST 2013*
• better discovery UI

0.9.4

• Release date: Mon Sep 23 14:11:16 CEST 2013*
• bugfixes, minor UI improvements
• documentation imporovements