A federation is comprised of institutions and organisations that sign up to an agreed set of policies for exchanging information about users and resources to enable access and use of resources and services. Edugate is Ireland's national access federation for the academic sector.
Federated Access builds a trust relationship between Identity Providers (IdP) and Service Providers (SP). It devolves the responsibility for authentication to a user's home institution using their home institution access credentials and establishes authorisation through the secure exchange of information (known as attributes) between both IdP and SP.
The Edugate federation is a service operated by HEAnet in co-operation with HEAnet client institutions
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