> An enterprise architect has raised licensing concerns to me about 
> opensaml-1.1b.jar in CAS. It is unsupported and of unknown icensing.

Neither of these points is correct based on Internet2 documentation.
https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/OpenSAML/OS1Status clearly states
that 1.1b is the latest and subject to the following support:

With respect to the supported versions, "support" constitutes a
promise to address security-related bugs by applying patches to the
subversion branch. It may include additional formal releases to
incorporate these fixes, but this is NOT guaranteed. Other bug fixes
and enhancements are likely to be restricted to issues that impact our
ability to continue to support the 1.3.x branch of the Shibboleth code
base. Other issues are likely to be ignored.

> (please refer to https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/OpenSAML/OSTwoLicense)

This link states that the latest OpenSAML 1.x versions are Apache
licensed.  The "few early versions" that link mentions would not
include the latest 1.1b.

> Another note of interest: CAS includes xmlsec-1.4.0 that has security 
> vulnerabilities.  It needs to be upgraded to version 1.4.3
> (refernce: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/466161
> http://santuario.apache.org/Java/index.html )

While it's probably wise to upgrade xmlsec, it's important to note
that CAS does not use XML digital signatures in any way for the SAML
response it sends to clients, so the vulnerability would not affect
CAS currently.

M

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