# Politecnico di Torino Shibboleth Identity Provider (IDEM GARR / eduGAIN)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/politecnico-di-torino/identity-federation/  
**Provider:** Politecnico di Torino — https://apis.io/providers/politecnico-di-torino/  
**Base URL:** https://idp.polito.it/idp/shibboleth  
**Documentation:** https://idp.polito.it/idp/shibboleth

Politecnico di Torino Shibboleth Identity Provider (IDEM GARR / eduGAIN) is one of 20 APIs that [Politecnico di Torino](https://apis.io/providers/politecnico-di-torino/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, eduGAIN, and IDEM GARR. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Machine-readable SAML 2.0 identity-provider metadata for Politecnico di Torino, served from the university's own address space at idp.polito.it (130.192.55.75) and mirrored at idem.polito.it. Verified live on 2026-08-30: 13,373 bytes of application/xml carrying an IDPSSODescriptor and an AttributeAuthorityDescriptor, protocol support for SAML 2.0 and SAML 1.1, HTTP-Redirect, HTTP-POST and HTTP-POST-SimpleSign SSO bindings with matching SLO endpoints, and shibmd:Scope polito.it. The entityID https://idem.polito.it/idp/shibboleth is registered in the Italian national federation IDEM GARR and published to eduGAIN, first seen 2020-07-24, with the eduGAIN connectivity check passing and Sirtfi asserted. A companion service provider, EduGateway Polito (https://idemidp.polito.it/shibboleth), is registered under the GEANT Data Protection Code of Conduct. This is the surface class the university cohort most consistently fails to record, and it is institution-operated by definition.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://www.idem.garr.it/
- **x-conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/politecnico-di-torino/refs/heads/main/conformance/politecnico-di-torino-conformance.yml

## Other Politecnico di Torino APIs (12)

- [PoliTO Students App (mobile backend client)](https://apis.io/apis/politecnico-di-torino/students-app/)
- [PoliTO Open Data](https://apis.io/apis/politecnico-di-torino/open-data/)
- [IRIS PoliTO OAI-PMH Metadata Service (CINECA deployment)](https://apis.io/apis/politecnico-di-torino/iris-oai/)
- [Politecnico di Torino Announcements API](https://apis.io/apis/politecnico-di-torino/politecnico-di-torino-announcements-api/)
- [Politecnico di Torino Auth API](https://apis.io/apis/politecnico-di-torino/politecnico-di-torino-auth-api/)
- [Politecnico di Torino Bookings API](https://apis.io/apis/politecnico-di-torino/politecnico-di-torino-bookings-api/)
- [Politecnico di Torino Courses API](https://apis.io/apis/politecnico-di-torino/politecnico-di-torino-courses-api/)
- [Politecnico di Torino Esc API](https://apis.io/apis/politecnico-di-torino/politecnico-di-torino-esc-api/)
- [Politecnico di Torino Exams API](https://apis.io/apis/politecnico-di-torino/politecnico-di-torino-exams-api/)
- [Politecnico di Torino Job offers API](https://apis.io/apis/politecnico-di-torino/politecnico-di-torino-job-offers-api/)
- [Politecnico di Torino Lectures API](https://apis.io/apis/politecnico-di-torino/politecnico-di-torino-lectures-api/)
- [Politecnico di Torino News API](https://apis.io/apis/politecnico-di-torino/politecnico-di-torino-news-api/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, eduGAIN, IDEM GARR, Single Sign-On, Metadata

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