Purpose of apollo key in the JKSKeyManager about spring-boot-security-saml-sample HOT 1 CLOSED

Private keys (with either self-signed or CA signed certificates) are used to digitally sign SAML messages, encrypt their content and in some cases for SSL/TLS Client authentication of your service provider application. SAML Extension ships with a default private key in the samlKeystore.jks with alias apollo which can be used for initial testing, but for security reason should be replaced with your own key in early development stages.

For general questions about saml and spring-saml, I'd suggest using SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/spring-saml

from spring-boot-security-saml-sample.