Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 Administration Reference

Assertion Time

Assertions are valid for a period of time and not before or after. This attribute specifies a grace period (in seconds) for the Not Before Time Skew value. The default value is 600. It has no relevance to the notAfter value.

Effective Time specifies (in seconds) the amount of time that an assertion is valid counting from the assertion's issue time. The default value is 600 seconds.