UCLouvain

UCLouvain Shibboleth Identity Provider -- SAML 2.0 metadata

UCLouvain runs its own Shibboleth identity provider and publishes signed SAML 2.0 entity metadata at a stable, unauthenticated URL. entityID https://idp.uclouvain.be/idp/shibboleth, shibmd:Scope uclouvain.be, OrganizationName "Universite catholique de Louvain", registered with the Belnet federation since 2012 and exported to eduGAIN (SIRTFI asserted). It carries an IDPSSODescriptor and an AttributeAuthorityDescriptor with HTTP-Redirect, HTTP-POST, POST-SimpleSign and SOAP bindings. Two further UCLouvain SAML service providers are in eduGAIN: ipb.uclouvain.be and the CECL ICLE corpus SP. This is the institution's most unambiguously institution-owned machine-readable surface, and it is the authentication layer for everything gated behind UCLouvain affiliation -- there is no API-key portal.

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https://federation.belnet.be/

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/uclouvain/refs/heads/main/authentication/uclouvain-identity-federation.yml
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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/uclouvain/refs/heads/main/conformance/uclouvain-education-standards.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: uclouvain:identity-federation
name: UCLouvain Shibboleth Identity Provider -- SAML 2.0 metadata
description: 'UCLouvain runs its own Shibboleth identity provider and publishes signed SAML 2.0 entity
  metadata at a stable, unauthenticated URL. entityID https://idp.uclouvain.be/idp/shibboleth, shibmd:Scope
  uclouvain.be, OrganizationName "Universite catholique de Louvain", registered with the Belnet federation
  since 2012 and exported to eduGAIN (SIRTFI asserted). It carries an IDPSSODescriptor and an AttributeAuthorityDescriptor
  with HTTP-Redirect, HTTP-POST, POST-SimpleSign and SOAP bindings. Two further UCLouvain SAML service
  providers are in eduGAIN: ipb.uclouvain.be and the CECL ICLE corpus SP. This is the institution''s most
  unambiguously institution-owned machine-readable surface, and it is the authentication layer for everything
  gated behind UCLouvain affiliation -- there is no API-key portal.'
humanURL: https://idp.uclouvain.be/idp/shibboleth
baseURL: https://idp.uclouvain.be/idp/shibboleth
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: entityID and metadata host are under uclouvain.be; OrganizationName "Universite catholique
  de Louvain"; registrationAuthority http://federation.belnet.be/ with UCLouvain as the registered entity
tags:
- Identity Federation
- Shibboleth
- SAML
- eduGAIN
- Single Sign-On
- Belgium
properties:
- type: x-authentication
  url: authentication/uclouvain-identity-federation.yml
- type: x-conformance
  url: conformance/uclouvain-education-standards.yml
- type: Documentation
  url: https://federation.belnet.be/