University of Tübingen

University of Tübingen Shibboleth Identity Provider (DFN-AAI / eduGAIN)

Institution-operated Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, registered in DFN-AAI — the German national research and education identity federation — and published as machine-readable metadata through the federation's MDQ service. EntityID https://idp.uni-tuebingen.de/shibboleth, DisplayName "Universität Tübingen" / "University of Tübingen", shibmd:Scope uni-tuebingen.de, registered 2009-05-26 under registrationAuthority https://www.aai.dfn.de and exported to eduGAIN. SSO endpoints: /idp/profile/SAML2/POST/SSO, /idp/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO and /idp/profile/SAML2/SOAP/ECP, plus a SAML 2.0 AttributeAuthorityDescriptor with a SOAP AttributeService. NameID formats persistent and transient. The signing certificate is issued to CN=idp.uni-tuebingen.de, OU=ZDV, O=Universitaet Tuebingen — the university's own computing centre holds the key. Entity attributes assert REFEDS Research & Scholarship support, SIRTFI and SIRTFI2 assurance certification, and membership of bwIDM, the Baden-Württemberg federated identity programme (independently corroborated by the bwIDM link in FDAT's own footer). A federation is shared by definition; the IdP behind it is entirely the institution's, and this is the strongest institution-operated machine surface the university has. RETRIEVAL WARNING: the DFN MDQ service answers 200 with a signed but EMPTY EntitiesDescriptor for an unregistered entityID — the plausible-looking https://idp.uni-tuebingen.de/idp/shibboleth is exactly such a false 200.

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: university-of-tubingen:identity-federation
name: University of Tübingen Shibboleth Identity Provider (DFN-AAI / eduGAIN)
x-operator: federation
description: 'Institution-operated Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, registered in DFN-AAI — the
  German national research and education identity federation — and published as machine-readable metadata
  through the federation''s MDQ service. EntityID https://idp.uni-tuebingen.de/shibboleth, DisplayName
  "Universität Tübingen" / "University of Tübingen", shibmd:Scope uni-tuebingen.de, registered 2009-05-26
  under registrationAuthority https://www.aai.dfn.de and exported to eduGAIN. SSO endpoints: /idp/profile/SAML2/POST/SSO,
  /idp/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO and /idp/profile/SAML2/SOAP/ECP, plus a SAML 2.0 AttributeAuthorityDescriptor
  with a SOAP AttributeService. NameID formats persistent and transient. The signing certificate is issued
  to CN=idp.uni-tuebingen.de, OU=ZDV, O=Universitaet Tuebingen — the university''s own computing centre
  holds the key. Entity attributes assert REFEDS Research & Scholarship support, SIRTFI and SIRTFI2 assurance
  certification, and membership of bwIDM, the Baden-Württemberg federated identity programme (independently
  corroborated by the bwIDM link in FDAT''s own footer). A federation is shared by definition; the IdP
  behind it is entirely the institution''s, and this is the strongest institution-operated machine surface
  the university has. RETRIEVAL WARNING: the DFN MDQ service answers 200 with a signed but EMPTY EntitiesDescriptor
  for an unregistered entityID — the plausible-looking https://idp.uni-tuebingen.de/idp/shibboleth is
  exactly such a false 200.'
humanURL: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/einrichtungen/zentrum-fuer-datenverarbeitung/dienstleistungen/digitale-identitaet/single-sign-on/
baseURL: https://mdq.aai.dfn.de/entities/https%3A%2F%2Fidp.uni-tuebingen.de%2Fshibboleth
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- DFN-AAI
- eduGAIN
- bwIDM
- Single Sign-On
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.aai.dfn.de/en/join/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-tubingen-conformance.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/university-of-tubingen-authentication.yml