# USM Shibboleth Identity Provider (SIFULAN / eduGAIN)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/usm/shibboleth-idp/  
**Provider:** Universiti Sains Malaysia — https://apis.io/providers/usm/  
**Base URL:** https://shibsso.usm.my/idp/shibboleth  
**Documentation:** https://www.usm.my

USM Shibboleth Identity Provider (SIFULAN / eduGAIN) is one of 6 APIs that [Universiti Sains Malaysia](https://apis.io/providers/usm/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, Shibboleth, SAML, SSO, and eduGAIN. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes authentication docs.

USM's own SAML 2.0 Shibboleth identity provider, entityID https://shibsso.usm.my/idp/shibboleth, scope usm.my. Registered in the SIFULAN Malaysian Access Federation on 2021-10-30 under registration authority https://sifulan.my, carried in SIFULAN's eduGAIN export, and tagged with the REFEDS Research and Scholarship entity category. Published bindings: SSO over HTTP-POST, HTTP-Redirect and POST-SimpleSign plus the Shibboleth 1.0 AuthnRequest profile; SLO over POST, Redirect and SOAP; an AttributeAuthority over SAML1 and SAML2 SOAP; artifact resolution over SOAP. In live production use — an unauthenticated request to eduvpn.usm.my lands on the IdP's SAML2 Redirect SSO endpoint. A federation is shared by definition; the IdP behind it is USM's.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Metadata** — https://shibsso.usm.my/idp/shibboleth
- **FederationMetadata** — https://metadata.sifulan.my/metadata.xml
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/usm/refs/heads/main/authentication/usm-authentication.yml
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/usm/refs/heads/main/conformance/usm-education-standards-conformance.yml

## Other Universiti Sains Malaysia APIs (5)

- [USM Repository OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/usm/eprints-oai/)
- [USM Repository EPrints REST and Export](https://apis.io/apis/usm/eprints-rest/)
- [e-Learning@USM Moodle Web Services](https://apis.io/apis/usm/moodle-ws/)
- [Crossref membership — Universiti Sains Malaysia](https://apis.io/apis/usm/crossref-member/)
- [ROR record — Universiti Sains Malaysia](https://apis.io/apis/usm/ror-record/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, Shibboleth, SAML, SSO, eduGAIN, SIFULAN

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