Curtin University

Curtin Library Shibboleth Service Provider

A Shibboleth SAML 2.0 service provider that Curtin Library runs on its own Kubernetes cluster, serving its entity metadata unauthenticated as application/samlmetadata+xml at the standard Shibboleth.sso path. This is the identity component Curtin genuinely engineers and hosts, and it is registered in the Australian Access Federation, and therefore in eduGAIN. Machine-readable institution-operated identity infrastructure is the class of surface universities most often have and least often have catalogued.

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Documentation

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Authentication
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/curtin/refs/heads/main/authentication/curtin-authentication.yml

Other Resources

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IdentityFederation
https://auth.lis.curtin.edu.au/Shibboleth.sso/Metadata
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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/curtin/refs/heads/main/conformance/curtin-conformance.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: curtin:identity-sp
name: Curtin Library Shibboleth Service Provider
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: auth.lis.curtin.edu.au CNAMEs to elb.prod.library.curtin.edu.au, which resolves to
  a Curtin-operated Kubernetes/Traefik load balancer in Curtin's own AWS account (k8s-traefik-traefikd-*.ap-southeast-2.elb.amazonaws.com).
  No vendor sits in the chain. The entity is registered in the Australian Access Federation aggregate
  with OrganizationDisplayName "Curtin University".
description: A Shibboleth SAML 2.0 service provider that Curtin Library runs on its own Kubernetes cluster,
  serving its entity metadata unauthenticated as application/samlmetadata+xml at the standard Shibboleth.sso
  path. This is the identity component Curtin genuinely engineers and hosts, and it is registered in the
  Australian Access Federation, and therefore in eduGAIN. Machine-readable institution-operated identity
  infrastructure is the class of surface universities most often have and least often have catalogued.
humanURL: https://auth.lis.curtin.edu.au/Shibboleth.sso/Metadata
baseURL: https://auth.lis.curtin.edu.au/Shibboleth.sso
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- eduGAIN
- Single Sign-On
properties:
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://auth.lis.curtin.edu.au/Shibboleth.sso/Metadata
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/curtin-conformance.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/curtin-authentication.yml