Shibboleth in Use
Shibboleth in Use offers examples and case studies of how the software is being used around the world to support the research and education community.
Case Studies- Federations
State and Regional Federations
- UCTrust Federation built on a Federation [pdf]
- The University of Texas System Federation and Use of Shibboleth [pdf]
- Great Plains Network: Building the Regional Middleware Infrastructure [pdf]
K12/Primary School
- UK’s Becta Shibboleth Pilots and Recommendations [html]
- UK’s Becta Value Proposition for Federated Access Management [html]
Administrative Applications
- Symplicity Student Career Services and Penn State [pdf]
Research and Academic Applications
- Attributes and Security Drive U. Florida's Choice of Shibboleth for SSO [pdf]
- Federated Case Studies from the UK: Identity and Service Providers [html]
- Great Plains Network: Integrating Shibboleth, Grid and Bioinformatics [pdf]
- Penn State and WebAssign [pdf]
- Case Study of the Usage of an Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure (AAI) in
an E-learning Project [pdf] - NYU and the University of Washington [pdf]
- University of Southern California:
- Shibboleth and Pubcookie at USC-Authentication and Authorization for All [pdf]
- Microsoft’s DreamSpark [html]
Case Studies - On-campus Single Sign-on and Attribute Delivery Examples
Shibboleth@OSU – Ohio State’s Website for On-campus Developers [html]
Detailed slide decks from campus implementers can be found in past CAMP proceedings:
- CAMP Shibboleth: Flexible Web-based Authentication and Authorization from June 2007
- CAMP Shibboleth: Enabling Campus and Federated Single Sign-on from June 2006.
Resource Lists
- Shibboleth Enabled Applications and Services
- International Federations using Shibboleth

