diff --git a/lib/SimpleSAML/Auth/LDAP.php b/lib/SimpleSAML/Auth/LDAP.php
index 66f2788bba75738d8c7889d8e1d57373e8cb02df..f7dbebd3e3f23464a252834f6bc59c43aa5f4430 100644
--- a/lib/SimpleSAML/Auth/LDAP.php
+++ b/lib/SimpleSAML/Auth/LDAP.php
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ class SimpleSAML_Auth_LDAP {
 	public function searchfordn($base, $attribute, $value, $allowZeroHits = FALSE) {
 
 		// Traverse all search bases, returning DN if found.
-		$bases = SimpleSAML_Utilities::arrayize($base);
+		$bases = SimpleSAML_Utils_Arrays::arrayize($base);
 		$result = NULL;
 		foreach ($bases AS $current) {
 			try {
diff --git a/lib/SimpleSAML/Configuration.php b/lib/SimpleSAML/Configuration.php
index 40941d56bb39a4f2f8a3dbf20b64fb4e910744ac..a2108ee156e3d8636106f83642058ccb2536e138 100644
--- a/lib/SimpleSAML/Configuration.php
+++ b/lib/SimpleSAML/Configuration.php
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ class SimpleSAML_Configuration {
 			$host = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
 			if (array_key_exists($host, $config['override.host'])) {
 				$ofs = $config['override.host'][$host];
-				foreach (SimpleSAML_Utilities::arrayize($ofs) AS $of) {
+				foreach (SimpleSAML_Utils_Arrays::arrayize($ofs) AS $of) {
 					$overrideFile = dirname($filename) . '/' . $of;
 					if (!file_exists($overrideFile)) {
 						throw new Exception('Config file [' . $filename . '] requests override for host ' . $host . ' but file does not exists [' . $of . ']');
diff --git a/lib/SimpleSAML/Metadata/SAMLBuilder.php b/lib/SimpleSAML/Metadata/SAMLBuilder.php
index 70f92f565e6fedbd1470d6221ee84e150d645598..52f71c2ae3d00dd2eeec043eb496243adffc6387 100644
--- a/lib/SimpleSAML/Metadata/SAMLBuilder.php
+++ b/lib/SimpleSAML/Metadata/SAMLBuilder.php
@@ -277,9 +277,9 @@ class SimpleSAML_Metadata_SAMLBuilder {
 			return;
 		}
 
-		$orgName = SimpleSAML_Utilities::arrayize($metadata['OrganizationName'], 'en');
-		$orgDisplayName = SimpleSAML_Utilities::arrayize($metadata['OrganizationDisplayName'], 'en');
-		$orgURL = SimpleSAML_Utilities::arrayize($metadata['OrganizationURL'], 'en');
+		$orgName = SimpleSAML_Utils_Arrays::arrayize($metadata['OrganizationName'], 'en');
+		$orgDisplayName = SimpleSAML_Utils_Arrays::arrayize($metadata['OrganizationDisplayName'], 'en');
+		$orgURL = SimpleSAML_Utils_Arrays::arrayize($metadata['OrganizationURL'], 'en');
 
 		$this->addOrganization($orgName, $orgDisplayName, $orgURL);
 	}
diff --git a/lib/SimpleSAML/Utilities.php b/lib/SimpleSAML/Utilities.php
index 052c07d010fa8d262664b029bdee1c19bd2658d2..5b99a9313779feae3181f3dacd404297dc217be5 100644
--- a/lib/SimpleSAML/Utilities.php
+++ b/lib/SimpleSAML/Utilities.php
@@ -1583,8 +1583,10 @@ class SimpleSAML_Utilities {
 		return $doc->saveXML($root);
 	}
 
-	/*
+	/**
 	 * Input is single value or array, returns an array.
+     *
+     * @deprecated This function will be removed in SSP 2.0. Please use SimpleSAML_Utils_Arrays::arrayize() instead.
 	 */
 	public static function arrayize($data, $index = 0) {
 		if (is_array($data)) {
diff --git a/lib/SimpleSAML/Utils/Arrays.php b/lib/SimpleSAML/Utils/Arrays.php
index 7f5db6c48cfaa8249f06670649665bf538f75b09..db9582361d5660e12918e3b9e6a0500f5eb42677 100644
--- a/lib/SimpleSAML/Utils/Arrays.php
+++ b/lib/SimpleSAML/Utils/Arrays.php
@@ -9,6 +9,23 @@
 class SimpleSAML_Utils_Arrays
 {
 
+    /**
+     * Put a non-array variable into an array.
+     *
+     * @param array $data The data to place into an array.
+     * @param mixed $index The index or key of the array where to place the data. Defaults to 0.
+     *
+     * @return array An array with one element containing $data, with key $index, or $data itself if it's already an
+     *     array.
+     *
+     * @author Andreas Solberg, UNINETT AS <andreas.solberg@uninett.no>
+     * @author Jaime Perez, UNINETT AS <jaime.perez@uninett.no>
+     */
+    public static function arrayize($data, $index = 0)
+    {
+        return (is_array($data)) ? $data : array($index => $data);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Validate and normalize an array with attributes.
      *
@@ -24,6 +41,7 @@ class SimpleSAML_Utils_Arrays
      *     not strings.
      *
      * @author Olav Morken, UNINETT AS <olav.morken@uninett.no>
+     * @author Jaime Perez, UNINETT AS <jaime.perez@uninett.no>
      */
     public static function normalizeAttributesArray($attributes)
     {
@@ -38,9 +56,7 @@ class SimpleSAML_Utils_Arrays
                 throw new SimpleSAML_Error_Exception('Invalid attribute name: "'.print_r($name, true).'".');
             }
 
-            if (!is_array($values)) {
-                $values = array($values);
-            }
+            $values = self::arrayize($values);
 
             foreach ($values as $value) {
                 if (!is_string($value)) {
diff --git a/modules/consent/templates/consentform.php b/modules/consent/templates/consentform.php
index 59608f048eca5046b4971c63decf93526db8e6fd..65056c56f1a934563e6c5181953ce87adbe56eae 100644
--- a/modules/consent/templates/consentform.php
+++ b/modules/consent/templates/consentform.php
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ if (array_key_exists('descr_purpose', $this->data['dstMetadata'])) {
         array(
             'SPNAME' => $dstName,
             'SPDESC' => $this->getTranslation(
-                SimpleSAML_Utilities::arrayize(
+                SimpleSAML_Utils_Arrays::arrayize(
                     $this->data['dstMetadata']['descr_purpose'],
                     'en'
                 )
diff --git a/modules/core/templates/frontpage_federation.tpl.php b/modules/core/templates/frontpage_federation.tpl.php
index 4891885676724fc3ae0c0f388669b47ed322ce75..eb8795ac6016ec00521d250578d38bb2b2523697 100644
--- a/modules/core/templates/frontpage_federation.tpl.php
+++ b/modules/core/templates/frontpage_federation.tpl.php
@@ -61,9 +61,9 @@ foreach ($this->data['metaentries']['hosted'] AS $hm) {
 	if ($hm['entityid'] !== $hm['metadata-index']) 
 		echo '<br />Index: ' . $hm['metadata-index'];
 	if (!empty($hm['name']))
-		echo '<br /><strong>' . $this->getTranslation(SimpleSAML_Utilities::arrayize($hm['name'], 'en')) . '</strong>';
+		echo '<br /><strong>' . $this->getTranslation(SimpleSAML_Utils_Arrays::arrayize($hm['name'], 'en')) . '</strong>';
 	if (!empty($hm['descr']))
-		echo '<br /><strong>' . $this->getTranslation(SimpleSAML_Utilities::arrayize($hm['descr'], 'en')) . '</strong>';
+		echo '<br /><strong>' . $this->getTranslation(SimpleSAML_Utils_Arrays::arrayize($hm['descr'], 'en')) . '</strong>';
 
 	echo '<br  />[ <a href="' . $hm['metadata-url'] . '">' . $this->t('{core:frontpage:show_metadata}') . '</a> ]';
 	
@@ -82,9 +82,9 @@ foreach($this->data['metaentries']['remote'] AS $setkey => $set) {
 			htmlspecialchars(SimpleSAML_Module::getModuleURL('core/show_metadata.php', array('entityid' => $entry['entityid'], 'set' => $setkey ))) .
 			'">');
 		if (!empty($entry['name'])) {
-			echo htmlspecialchars($this->getTranslation(SimpleSAML_Utilities::arrayize($entry['name'], 'en')));
+			echo htmlspecialchars($this->getTranslation(SimpleSAML_Utils_Arrays::arrayize($entry['name'], 'en')));
 		} elseif (!empty($entry['OrganizationDisplayName'])) {
-			echo htmlspecialchars($this->getTranslation(SimpleSAML_Utilities::arrayize($entry['OrganizationDisplayName'], 'en')));
+			echo htmlspecialchars($this->getTranslation(SimpleSAML_Utils_Arrays::arrayize($entry['OrganizationDisplayName'], 'en')));
 		} else {
 			echo htmlspecialchars($entry['entityid']);
 		}
diff --git a/modules/saml/lib/Auth/Source/SP.php b/modules/saml/lib/Auth/Source/SP.php
index 565ad663156eea11243914dacd15eec346f865dd..a1779a127fe43a4279218692e8f938e0dcd78d4b 100644
--- a/modules/saml/lib/Auth/Source/SP.php
+++ b/modules/saml/lib/Auth/Source/SP.php
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ class sspmod_saml_Auth_Source_SP extends SimpleSAML_Auth_Source {
 		}
 
 		if (isset($state['saml:AuthnContextClassRef'])) {
-			$accr = SimpleSAML_Utilities::arrayize($state['saml:AuthnContextClassRef']);
+			$accr = SimpleSAML_Utils_Arrays::arrayize($state['saml:AuthnContextClassRef']);
 			$ar->setRequestedAuthnContext(array('AuthnContextClassRef' => $accr));
 		}
 
diff --git a/modules/statistics/lib/StatDataset.php b/modules/statistics/lib/StatDataset.php
index 1ea4f1a800c582aba4a24b8492db645a0cfc486b..0533a2211557057d0ee0692118fdd3f1ca5ee672 100644
--- a/modules/statistics/lib/StatDataset.php
+++ b/modules/statistics/lib/StatDataset.php
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ class sspmod_statistics_StatDataset {
 
 		$statdir = $this->statconfig->getValue('statdir');
 		$resarray = array();
-		$rules = SimpleSAML_Utilities::arrayize($this->ruleid);
+		$rules = SimpleSAML_Utils_Arrays::arrayize($this->ruleid);
 		foreach($rules AS $rule) {
 			// Get file and extract results.
 			$resultFileName = $statdir . '/' . $rule . '-' . $this->timeres . '-'. $this->fileslot . '.stat';
diff --git a/tests/Utils/ArraysTest.php b/tests/Utils/ArraysTest.php
index 1d4ed91d2beec77e266ee1f98e37eb3bae6e76a7..e43f5c28b95743c21c1106d34651fb4a0414d43d 100644
--- a/tests/Utils/ArraysTest.php
+++ b/tests/Utils/ArraysTest.php
@@ -7,6 +7,32 @@
 class Utils_ArraysTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
 {
 
+    /**
+     * Test the arrayize() function.
+     */
+    public function testArrayize()
+    {
+        // check with empty array as input
+        $array = array();
+        $this->assertEquals($array, SimpleSAML_Utils_Arrays::arrayize($array));
+
+        // check non-empty array as input
+        $array = array('key' => 'value');
+        $this->assertEquals($array, SimpleSAML_Utils_Arrays::arrayize($array));
+
+        // check indexes are ignored when input is an array
+        $this->assertArrayNotHasKey('invalid', SimpleSAML_Utils_Arrays::arrayize($array, 'invalid'));
+
+        // check default index
+        $expected = array('string');
+        $this->assertEquals($expected, SimpleSAML_Utils_Arrays::arrayize($expected[0]));
+
+        // check string index
+        $index = 'key';
+        $expected = array($index => 'string');
+        $this->assertEquals($expected, SimpleSAML_Utils_Arrays::arrayize($expected[$index], $index));
+    }
+
     /**
      * Test the normalizeAttributesArray() function with input not being an array
      *