Single sign on with Spring Security SAML and SAP HANA

SAP HANA provides users the ability to authenticate using a valid, trusted SAML assertion token. Recently, I was asked to demonstrate this ability to authenticate with a trusted SAML token from a Spring Security web application. So, I laid out a scenario as shown in the figure below.

Enabling on premise Fiori SSO with OpenSSL certificates – Part 1

I had described how to enable single-sign-on based on OpenSSL for Windows on a Web AS ABAP sandbox system and this information is still valid. However, both the NWAS ABAP as well as the OpenSSL tools have evolved considerably since 2012 so that I will describe an updated approach for Fiori single-sign-on in this blog series. I will start with explaining how to setup a sucure SSL connection to the Fiori Launchpad based on OpenSSL certificates.

Again, this blog is intended for you to learn and understand the concepts. Neither key lengths nor other security considerations except for making this example work have been considered.