University of Science and Technology of China

USTC Shibboleth Identity Provider (跨校资源认证中心)

USTC's self-hosted Shibboleth IdP 5.2.2, publishing a 15KB SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor for entityID https://idp.ustc.edu.cn/idp/shibboleth with a shibmd:Scope of ustc.edu.cn, SSO and SLO endpoints across Redirect, POST and POST-SimpleSign bindings, SOAP artifact resolution and attribute query on port 8443, and twelve certificates. It federates into CARSI, the Chinese Academy of Sciences CSTCloud AAI and eduGAIN, which is how USTC members reach licensed library databases from off campus without a VPN. Institution-operated by definition and confirmed by address ownership — this is not a managed federation platform wearing a university hostname. Anonymously readable; the metadata is archived in this repository.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://lib.ustc.edu.cn/%E7%94%B5%E5%AD%90%E8%B5%84%E6%BA%90/%E6%A0%A1%E5%A4%96%E8%AE%BF%E9%97%AE%E7%94%B5%E5%AD%90%E6%95%B0%E6%8D%AE%E5%BA%93%E8%B5%84%E6%BA%90%E6%8C%87%E5%8D%97/

Other Resources

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IdentityFederation
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ustc/refs/heads/main/identity-federation/ustc-identity-federation.yml
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Metadata
https://idp.ustc.edu.cn/idp/shibboleth
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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ustc/refs/heads/main/conformance/ustc-conformance.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: ustc:idp
name: USTC Shibboleth Identity Provider (跨校资源认证中心)
description: USTC's self-hosted Shibboleth IdP 5.2.2, publishing a 15KB SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor for
  entityID https://idp.ustc.edu.cn/idp/shibboleth with a shibmd:Scope of ustc.edu.cn, SSO and SLO endpoints
  across Redirect, POST and POST-SimpleSign bindings, SOAP artifact resolution and attribute query on
  port 8443, and twelve certificates. It federates into CARSI, the Chinese Academy of Sciences CSTCloud
  AAI and eduGAIN, which is how USTC members reach licensed library databases from off campus without
  a VPN. Institution-operated by definition and confirmed by address ownership — this is not a managed
  federation platform wearing a university hostname. Anonymously readable; the metadata is archived in
  this repository.
humanURL: http://ustcnet.ustc.edu.cn/2022/1221/c33557a592151/page.htm
baseURL: https://idp.ustc.edu.cn/idp/
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- eduGAIN
- CARSI
- Library Access
properties:
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: identity-federation/ustc-identity-federation.yml
- type: Metadata
  url: https://idp.ustc.edu.cn/idp/shibboleth
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/ustc-conformance.yml
- type: Documentation
  url: https://lib.ustc.edu.cn/%E7%94%B5%E5%AD%90%E8%B5%84%E6%BA%90/%E6%A0%A1%E5%A4%96%E8%AE%BF%E9%97%AE%E7%94%B5%E5%AD%90%E6%95%B0%E6%8D%AE%E5%BA%93%E8%B5%84%E6%BA%90%E6%8C%87%E5%8D%97/
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: idp.ustc.edu.cn resolves directly to 114.214.240.47 — APNIC netname NJR-CERNET, China
  Education and Research Network Nanjing Regional Network — with no CNAME onto a managed IdP platform.
  The metadata's Organization block reads "University of Science and Technology of China / 中国科学技术大学" and
  the Network Information Center names itself as operator on its own service page.
x-access: public-read
x-status: 200, application/xml, 15,066 bytes (probed 2026-08-30)