Identity federation eduID.cz

The basic features

The Czech academic identity federation eduID.cz brings together members who exploit information about the identity of their users while facilitating their access to various network services. Each federation member can play one or both following roles:

• Identity provider manages usernames, passwords and other data about its users; and makes certain data available to service providers;
• Service provider provides web application or network service and deploys information on identity and possibly other characteristics of users for managing the service access.

Feature description:

• Easy access to several applications and services of partner entities, the user is only required to sign in once;
• Application administrators do not store user authentication data and do not perform any authentication;
• The user authentication is always performed at the home server, the sensitive authentication data do not leave the home network;
• The federation infrastructure provides easy, standard and secure means of user data exchange.

Through eduID.cz, the access to international services via the eduGAIN interfederation can be provided.

To install the service, the participant should follow the instructions in the guidelines. Once the administrative contact person has been appointed and authenticated, the user should launch own entity (IdP and/or SP) and request that metadata are uploaded in the eduID.cz identity federation.