# University of Sussex Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-sussex/identity-federation/  
**Provider:** University of Sussex — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-sussex/  
**Base URL:** https://idp.sussex.ac.uk/idp/  
**Documentation:** https://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/services/sso

University of Sussex Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata) is one of 5 APIs that [University of Sussex](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-sussex/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, and Single Sign-On. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes authentication docs.

The university's own Shibboleth IdP, publishing signed SAML 2.0 metadata as a machine-readable EntityDescriptor. entityID https://idp.sussex.ac.uk/shibboleth, shibmd:Scope sussex.ac.uk, IDPSSODescriptor with protocolSupportEnumeration urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:protocol and both signing and encryption KeyDescriptors. The host CNAMEs to uos-idp-shib-prod.uksouth.cloudapp.azure.com — a Sussex-operated deployment, not a vendor's shared service — which is what makes this the one institution-operated contract in this repository. It is metadata, not a REST API: there is no OpenAPI to save and none has been invented.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **IdentityFederation** — https://idp.sussex.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
- **x-saml-metadata** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-sussex/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-sussex-idp-saml-metadata.xml
- **x-conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-sussex/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-sussex-domain-standards.yml
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-sussex/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-sussex-authentication.yml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-sussex/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other University of Sussex APIs (4)

- [University of Sussex Single Sign-On (Okta tenant)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-sussex/okta-sso/)
- [University of Sussex Canvas VLE (Instructure tenant)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-sussex/canvas-vle/)
- [University of Sussex Research Data Repository (Figshare tenant)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-sussex/figshare-repository/)
- [University of Sussex Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo tenant)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-sussex/primo-discovery/)

## 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/university-of-sussex/identity-federation/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/university-of-sussex/.