Metadata

Metadata are dynamically updated configuration data about the service providers and identity providers making up the federation.

WAYF metadata may only be used for connecting to WAYF, and at your own risk. Any other usage must be approved by the WAYF Secretariat.

Technically, WAYF metadata are XML documents. XML is the standard format within identity federation — also with the very protocol messages exchanged at runtime.


Metadata

Metadata in WAYF are issued both as a number of feeds (with numerous entities in each feed) and as seperate entities (through the MDQ protocol). On the WAYF entities dashboard, in each entity's entry you will find a link to dynamically updated metadata for that particular entity.


Certificate for verifying signed metadata feeds from WAYF

WAYF signs its metadata feeds with the private key corresponding to the certificate whose fingerprint and PEM encoding is published here:

38:88:d7:ec:1b:b4:f0:59:cb:b7:fe:98:10:2d:34:34:30:c0:c0:d4:
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
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MAsGA1UEChMEV0FZRjEeMBwGA1UEAxMVbWV0YWRhdGEuMjAxNi5zaWduaW5nMB4X
DTE1MDEwMTAwMDAwMFoXDTI1MTIzMTAwMDAwMFowPDELMAkGA1UEBhMCREsxDTAL
BgNVBAoTBFdBWUYxHjAcBgNVBAMTFW1ldGFkYXRhLjIwMTYuc2lnbmluZzCCASIw
DQYJKoZIhvcNAQEBBQADggEPADCCAQoCggEBAJ8csKphZWfERIcorQzodVnR9vUS
LzxXI0DGL98afvJvEfsbqy5WHhS1Sl1CnYoKSl6NtO7UC6wix3gxa0OasB6vsUe0
LDsXndLhyKziZIsu0D/sHvaz6jucs6Q7gvuyUztohtzSEu2iIyCzUQMSwwAJwtY3
AVNssxJaG+CF6bwU8ARQxUqlpB8Ufx2knFLnL8NJcZcXKz+ZpnNZtEWu5cIRPSiI
pWkc4efwk78pqFdLr14fPBo9jgfzunq71TjnP0G2wYD15dq9ShWGKNm6sT6xs29i
BNjI/MZzD7Srp6GWdMjEVcbWSlA7YBc0FpdwWZpDUDwj6D2l/8FRSNjqyTUCAwEA
AaMSMBAwDgYDVR0PAQH/BAQDAgIEMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBCwUAA4IBAQAXkE3WqIly
NAeHXjDvJPDy8JBWeHOt7CpLJ8mDvD3Ev7uTiM2I5Mh/arMAH6T2aMxiCrk4k1qF
ibX0wIlWDfCCvCUfDELaCcpSjHFmumbt0cI1SBhYh6Kt0kWYsEdyzpGm0gPl+YID
Rg6VNKINJeOBM6r/avh3aRzmh2pGz1M1DAucEXz6L0caCkxU3RXFRzvvakW01qKO
2hc6WhxfqMUmSIxi+SAPlLN3L2kS0ItTJ3RSxVPA2zF7yVgoI0yrLBhR2AQgWCS2
eW2q8fSxpyb0sDCGVV/AAsunKYSO8i2Hjvu13lcRx/JxLwdlm8+NNNGX52qwz0Lo
i1lLXSO09bfw
-----END CERTIFICATE-----