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Shibboleth named after early ethnic cleansing?Created by Stuart Yeates (University of Oxford) on July 18, 2005
The JISC is promoting Shibboleth, an authentication and authorisation component of internet2 as the future of authentication and authorisation in higher and further education, both in the UK and world-wide. As part of this process they're publishing backgrounders on the technology, including one which includes this paragraph: "Shibboleth: The word comes from the Old Testament (Judges 12:1-6). The Ephraimites who lived to the west of the river Jordan invaded Gilead on the other side of the river and were defeated. Retreating, their way was blocked by the Gileadites who controlled the fords. They had different accents and the Ephraimites pronounced the "sh" sound as "si". To separate friend from foe, those crossing the river were asked to pronounce the word "shibboleth" (it means an ear of corn). According to the bible, the 42,000 who pronounced it "sibboleth" were killed." Now I'm no biblical scholar, so I could be wrong, but this sounds like ethnic cleansing to me. Just imagine how popular the *.rw localisation is going to be... tags: opensource uk jisc internet2 shibboleth
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