# UNSW Shibboleth Identity Provider (AAF / eduGAIN)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/unsw-sydney/shibboleth-idp/  
**Provider:** University of New South Wales — https://apis.io/providers/unsw-sydney/  
**Base URL:** https://aaf.unsw.edu.au/idp/shibboleth  
**Documentation:** https://aaf.edu.au/

UNSW Shibboleth Identity Provider (AAF / eduGAIN) is one of 9 APIs that [University of New South Wales](https://apis.io/providers/unsw-sydney/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, Shibboleth, SAML, Single Sign-On, and eduGAIN. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes authentication docs and API documentation.

UNSW's own SAML 2.0 identity provider — a Shibboleth IdP whose entity metadata is published as a machine-readable XML document at the entityID URL and is carried in the AAF federation aggregate, which participates in eduGAIN. SingleSignOnService endpoints are exposed over HTTP-POST and HTTP-Redirect bindings. This is institution-operated by definition and is the class of surface a university runs itself even when every application on top is a vendor's. A second UNSW-operated entity, the AC Lab System service provider at sp.acls.analytical.unsw.edu.au, is registered in the same federation with OrganizationName unsw.edu.au.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/unsw-sydney/refs/heads/main/examples/unsw-sydney-shibboleth-idp-metadata-example.xml
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/unsw-sydney/refs/heads/main/conformance/unsw-sydney-education-standards-conformance.yml
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/unsw-sydney/refs/heads/main/authentication/unsw-sydney-authentication.yml
- **Documentation** — https://md.aaf.edu.au/aaf-metadata.xml

## Other University of New South Wales APIs (8)

- [UNSWorks Repository REST API (DSpace 7.0)](https://apis.io/apis/unsw-sydney/unsworks-rest/)
- [UNSWorks Repository OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/unsw-sydney/unsworks-oai/)
- [UNSW Enterprise Developer Portal](https://apis.io/apis/unsw-sydney/developer-portal/)
- [Moodle @ UNSW (TELT) — LTI 1.3 platform](https://apis.io/apis/unsw-sydney/moodle-lti/)
- [UNSW Library discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE)](https://apis.io/apis/unsw-sydney/primo-discovery/)
- [Freerooms API (DevSoc, community)](https://apis.io/apis/unsw-sydney/freerooms/)
- [UNSW Timetable API (DevSoc, community) — ARCHIVED](https://apis.io/apis/unsw-sydney/timetable-scraper/)
- [UNSW Handbook API (CSESoc, community) — ARCHIVED](https://apis.io/apis/unsw-sydney/handbook-api/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, Shibboleth, SAML, Single Sign-On, eduGAIN

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/unsw-sydney/shibboleth-idp/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/unsw-sydney/.