# IIT Madras Shibboleth Identity Provider (INFED / eduGAIN)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/iit-madras/idp/  
**Provider:** Indian Institute of Technology Madras — https://apis.io/providers/iit-madras/  
**Base URL:** https://idp.iitm.ac.in/idp/  
**Documentation:** https://idp.iitm.ac.in/

IIT Madras Shibboleth Identity Provider (INFED / eduGAIN) is one of 7 APIs that [Indian Institute of Technology Madras](https://apis.io/providers/iit-madras/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, and Single Sign-On.

IIT Madras's own SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://idp.iitm.ac.in/idp/shibboleth, registered by INFED (the INFLIBNET Access Management Federation) and published into eduGAIN as entity 672697 since 2018-11-02. The eduGAIN record carries both an IDPSSODescriptor and an AttributeAuthorityDescriptor, a shibmd scope of iitm.ac.in, and ECCS status 1. The entityID itself returns 403 to anonymous clients, so the authoritative machine-readable description is the federation aggregate rather than a per-entity metadata URL. This is the strongest institution-operated machine-readable surface in the profile and it was entirely absent from the June 2026 pass.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **IdentityFederation** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iit-madras/refs/heads/main/identity-federation/iit-madras-identity-federation.yml
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iit-madras/refs/heads/main/conformance/iit-madras-conformance.yml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iit-madras/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Indian Institute of Technology Madras APIs (6)

- [IIT Madras Moodle — LTI 1.3 platform and Moodle Web Services](https://apis.io/apis/iit-madras/moodle-lti/)
- [Shoonya annotation platform API (AI4Bharat, IIT Madras)](https://apis.io/apis/iit-madras/shoonya/)
- [IIT Madras Online Degree community forum (Discourse tenant)](https://apis.io/apis/iit-madras/discourse/)
- [IIT Madras research profiles (IRINS tenant)](https://apis.io/apis/iit-madras/irins/)
- [Crossref membership (member 49493)](https://apis.io/apis/iit-madras/crossref/)
- [ROR registration (03v0r5n49)](https://apis.io/apis/iit-madras/ror/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, Single Sign-On

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/iit-madras/idp/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/iit-madras/.