University of Pennsylvania

PennKey Identity Provider — SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth Metadata

Penn's Shibboleth identity provider publishes a signed SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor at a well-known location (HTTP 200, application/xml, entityID https://idp.pennkey.upenn.edu/idp/shibboleth), carrying the Shibboleth metadata extension namespace and an embedded X.509 signing certificate. The same entity resolves live through InCommon MDQ as application/samlmetadata+xml, which makes federation membership verifiable rather than self-asserted. This is machine-readable infrastructure the institution itself operates, and it is the strongest institution-owned surface in this profile.

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Other Resources

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x-saml-metadata
https://idp.pennkey.upenn.edu/idp/shibboleth
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x-federation-entry
https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/https%3A%2F%2Fidp.pennkey.upenn.edu%2Fidp%2Fshibboleth
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x-conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-pennsylvania/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-pennsylvania-conformance.yml
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x-authentication
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-pennsylvania/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-pennsylvania-authentication.yml
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x-lifecycle
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-pennsylvania/refs/heads/main/lifecycle/university-of-pennsylvania-lifecycle.yml

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-pennsylvania:pennkey-identity-provider
name: PennKey Identity Provider — SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth Metadata
description: Penn's Shibboleth identity provider publishes a signed SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor at a well-known
  location (HTTP 200, application/xml, entityID https://idp.pennkey.upenn.edu/idp/shibboleth), carrying
  the Shibboleth metadata extension namespace and an embedded X.509 signing certificate. The same entity
  resolves live through InCommon MDQ as application/samlmetadata+xml, which makes federation membership
  verifiable rather than self-asserted. This is machine-readable infrastructure the institution itself
  operates, and it is the strongest institution-owned surface in this profile.
x-operator: institution
humanURL: https://idp.pennkey.upenn.edu/idp/shibboleth
baseURL: https://idp.pennkey.upenn.edu/idp
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- InCommon
- Authentication
properties:
- type: x-saml-metadata
  url: https://idp.pennkey.upenn.edu/idp/shibboleth
- type: x-federation-entry
  url: https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/https%3A%2F%2Fidp.pennkey.upenn.edu%2Fidp%2Fshibboleth
- type: x-conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-pennsylvania-conformance.yml
- type: x-authentication
  url: authentication/university-of-pennsylvania-authentication.yml
- type: x-lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/university-of-pennsylvania-lifecycle.yml