Citrix Adaptive Authentication (Netscaler) SAML Assertion verification failed

When integrating new authentication policies and actions on the AAA server available with Adaptive Authentication in Citrix Cloud you may encounter this error after a successful saml authentication

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Citrix Adaptive Authentication (Netscaler) SAML Assertion verification failed

When integrating new authentication policies and actions on the AAA server available with Adaptive Authentication in Citrix Cloud you may encounter this error after a successful saml authentication when testing the authentication :

SAML Assertion verification failed; Please contact your administrator

to check if you can catch an error you can use this command on the Netscaler provisioned in Citrix Cloud for the Adaptive Authentication :

nsconmsg -d current -g saml

Here is what I got :

Which means the certificates I used in the SAML Authentication policy wasn't correct. After checking with my customer an replacing with the good certificate, it worked :

Now you can move on to the next issue 😅