Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

IISc Shibboleth Identity Provider (INFED / eduGAIN)

Institution-operated Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, self-published as machine-readable metadata on IISc's own host and registered in the INFLIBNET Access Management Federation (INFED), which carries it into eduGAIN. Verified live 2026-09-01 — GET https://libraryidp.iisc.ac.in/idp/shibboleth returns 200 application/xml, a 15,764-byte EntityDescriptor with entityID https://libraryidp.iisc.ac.in/idp/shibboleth, mdui:DisplayName "Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru" and shibmd:Scope iisc.ac.in. It advertises SingleSignOnService on HTTP-POST, HTTP-POST-SimpleSign, HTTP-Redirect and the Shibboleth AuthnRequest binding, SingleLogoutService on four bindings, and SAML1/SAML2 SOAP AttributeQuery on port 8443. The Redirect/SSO endpoint returns 400 "Stale Request" to a bare GET, which is a running IdP rejecting a malformed AuthnRequest. The eduGAIN entity API returns exactly one IISc entity (id 672727, regauth http://inflibnet.ac.in, code INFED, sirtfi_status 1, first seen 2020-04-12) and it appears in the eduGAIN aggregate. A federation is shared by definition; the IdP behind it is IISc's own, and this is the strongest institution-operated machine surface the institute has.

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APIReference
https://libraryidp.iisc.ac.in/idp/shibboleth

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iisc/refs/heads/main/conformance/iisc-conformance.yml
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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: iisc:identity-federation
name: IISc Shibboleth Identity Provider (INFED / eduGAIN)
x-operator: institution
description: Institution-operated Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, self-published as machine-readable
  metadata on IISc's own host and registered in the INFLIBNET Access Management Federation (INFED), which
  carries it into eduGAIN. Verified live 2026-09-01 — GET https://libraryidp.iisc.ac.in/idp/shibboleth
  returns 200 application/xml, a 15,764-byte EntityDescriptor with entityID https://libraryidp.iisc.ac.in/idp/shibboleth,
  mdui:DisplayName "Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru" and shibmd:Scope iisc.ac.in. It advertises
  SingleSignOnService on HTTP-POST, HTTP-POST-SimpleSign, HTTP-Redirect and the Shibboleth AuthnRequest
  binding, SingleLogoutService on four bindings, and SAML1/SAML2 SOAP AttributeQuery on port 8443. The
  Redirect/SSO endpoint returns 400 "Stale Request" to a bare GET, which is a running IdP rejecting a
  malformed AuthnRequest. The eduGAIN entity API returns exactly one IISc entity (id 672727, regauth http://inflibnet.ac.in,
  code INFED, sirtfi_status 1, first seen 2020-04-12) and it appears in the eduGAIN aggregate. A federation
  is shared by definition; the IdP behind it is IISc's own, and this is the strongest institution-operated
  machine surface the institute has.
humanURL: https://infed.in/
baseURL: https://libraryidp.iisc.ac.in/idp/shibboleth
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- Single Sign-On
- Authentication
properties:
- type: APIReference
  url: https://libraryidp.iisc.ac.in/idp/shibboleth
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/iisc-conformance.yml