This means it should not be trusted, and precautions
should be taken against SQL injection and cross-site scripting
attacks.
The claims values returned can be used in many different ways;
this is both the beauty and the power of the claims-based
model. When a site knows some strongly asserted information
about a subject, it can devise its own rules for how to process
The claims sent in
the token can be
used to transmit
any required
information
Figure 4-5 An audience restriction condition added to a SAML
assertion
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this information. Figure 4-6 shows how the claims emailaddress,
givenname, and webpage returned in the token.
Accepting Personal Cards at a Website
To help make the process of accepting a card more concrete, we
elaborate on the simple case of accepting a Personal Card for
logging in to a site. The site logon page would contain a form
that speci?¬?es the self-issued URI for the issue, as the claims that
it would like. In this case, the site will simply request the Private
Personal Identi?¬?er (PPID) claim: