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Service Provider

Definition

The Service Providers are standard application servers that relays on Identity Providers to let the users log in.

Join federation

To join the federation, the service provider management team must deliver its "Metadata". The service provider Metadata describes how the service providers behaves:

  • Which security algorithms does it support.
  • The public portion of its signing and encrypting keys.
  • The SAML protocols does it support.
  • The URL of each SAML protocol endpoint.
  • Contact information.

    Standard attributes

    The standard attributes depends on the Service provider type.  Currently there are three types:

    SAML

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      SAML API client

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      OpenID Connect

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