University of Waterloo

University of Waterloo Shibboleth Identity Provider

The University of Waterloo's own SAML 2.0 identity provider metadata, served as XML from idp.uwaterloo.ca. The EntityDescriptor carries entityID https://idp.uwaterloo.ca/idp/shibboleth, a shibboleth Scope of uwaterloo.ca, a display name and organization name of University of Waterloo, and protocol support for SAML 2.0, SAML 1.1 and Shibboleth 1.0. Waterloo participates in the Canadian Access Federation, which is shared by definition — the identity provider behind it is not. This is one of the strongest institution-operated machine-readable surfaces a university has and it is routinely uncatalogued.

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APIReference
https://idp.uwaterloo.ca/idp/shibboleth
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Documentation
https://www.canarie.ca/identity/caf/

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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-waterloo/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-waterloo-conformance.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-waterloo:university-of-waterloo-shibboleth-idp
name: University of Waterloo Shibboleth Identity Provider
description: The University of Waterloo's own SAML 2.0 identity provider metadata, served as XML from
  idp.uwaterloo.ca. The EntityDescriptor carries entityID https://idp.uwaterloo.ca/idp/shibboleth, a shibboleth
  Scope of uwaterloo.ca, a display name and organization name of University of Waterloo, and protocol
  support for SAML 2.0, SAML 1.1 and Shibboleth 1.0. Waterloo participates in the Canadian Access Federation,
  which is shared by definition — the identity provider behind it is not. This is one of the strongest
  institution-operated machine-readable surfaces a university has and it is routinely uncatalogued.
humanURL: https://uwaterloo.ca/information-systems-technology/
baseURL: https://idp.uwaterloo.ca/idp/shibboleth
x-operator: federation
x-operator-basis: Identity-federation metadata carrying Waterloo's OWN IdP, on a Waterloo host. Fetched
  2026-09-01, HTTP 200, application/xml.
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- Single Sign-On
properties:
- type: APIReference
  url: https://idp.uwaterloo.ca/idp/shibboleth
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-waterloo-conformance.yml
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.canarie.ca/identity/caf/