# HKUST Shibboleth Identity Provider

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/hkust/identity-federation/  
**Provider:** Hong Kong University of Science and Technology — https://apis.io/providers/hkust/  
**Base URL:** https://idp.ust.hk/idp/shibboleth  
**Documentation:** https://www.hkaf.edu.hk/

HKUST Shibboleth Identity Provider is one of 6 APIs that [Hong Kong University of Science and Technology](https://apis.io/providers/hkust/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, eduGAIN, and Single Sign-On. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and authentication docs.

HKUST's own SAML 2.0 identity provider, serving machine-readable metadata at idp.ust.hk/idp/shibboleth. Asserts the scopes ust.hk, connect.ust.hk and alumni.ust.hk, and declares HTTP-POST, HTTP-POST-SimpleSign, HTTP-Redirect and SOAP/ECP single-sign-on bindings alongside the legacy Shibboleth 1.0 profile. Registered by the Hong Kong Access Federation on 2017-01-07 and published into eduGAIN carrying the REFEDS Research & Scholarship entity category and the SIRTFI security-incident-response framework, with a security contact of security@ust.hk. This is institution-operated by definition and is the most substantial machine-readable surface HKUST runs — and it is not a developer API, which is the characteristic shape of a university's real programmable footprint.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Metadata** — https://idp.ust.hk/idp/shibboleth
- **Documentation** — https://technical.edugain.org/api.php?action=show_entity&entityid=https://idp.ust.hk/idp/shibboleth
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hkust/refs/heads/main/authentication/hkust-authentication.yml

## Other Hong Kong University of Science and Technology APIs (5)

- [HKUST Path Advisor API](https://apis.io/apis/hkust/path-advisor/)
- [HKUST API Gateway and API Portal](https://apis.io/apis/hkust/api-gateway/)
- [DataSpace@HKUST Research Data Repository API](https://apis.io/apis/hkust/dataspace/)
- [HKUST Library Crossref DOI Registration](https://apis.io/apis/hkust/crossref-doi/)
- [HKUST Open Data Platform](https://apis.io/apis/hkust/open-data-platform/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, eduGAIN, Single Sign-On

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