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Chapter 12: Field descriptions
Field Description
SignRequest
If selected, indicates authentication requests between your organization and the
Nuance Central Authentication portal should be signed to increase security.
If you select this option, download Nuance's signing certificate in the Download
field above and give it to your identity provider.
If deselected, indicates authentication requests do not need to be signed.
Default value: Deselected
Sign Request
Algorithm
Available only if you selected the SignRequest option above.
Indicates the algorithm used to sign tokens issued for your application.
The options are:
l RSA-SHA256
l RSA-SHA1
Sign Request
Digest
Algorithm
Available only if you selected the SignRequest option above.
Used to create a hash of the certificate data.
The options are:
l SHA256
l SHA1
Use default
signing
certificate
If selected, Central Authentication uses the default certificate when processing
SAML authentication requests for your federated relationship with Nuance.
If deselected, Central Authentication uses a custom certificate to sign SAML
requests. When you add a custom certificate, you cannot access your Nuance
product using the federated relationship until you have shared the signing
certificate public key with your identity provider and the identity provider's
administrator has loaded it into their system.
To add a custom certificate, you must ensure the user managing the custom
certificate has the appropriate grants. For more information on those grants, see
the "Configuring Central Authentication" section in the Nuance Management
Center Server Installation and Configuration Guide.
For more information on using a custom signing certificate, see “To add a custom
SAML request signing certificate:” on page 35.
Default value: Selected
Certificate
Expiration Dat-
e
Available only if you deselected the Use default signing certificate option above.
Indicates the date on which your custom SAML request signing certificate will
expire. Specify a date or click the field to select a date from the calendar.
Default value: Two years from the current date
Federated Relationship-Logs page
The following table describes the fields on the Federated Relationship - Logs page (Organization
Details page>Central Authentication tab>Logs button).
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