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Service Provider

Definition

The Service Providers are standard applications that rely 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 behave:

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

Standard attributes

To see more information about the service providers types and attributes, you can check the Service providers page.