IDentity Provider

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
IDP
Pronunciation
/aɪˈdɛntəˌti prəˈvaɪdər/
Category
Internet
Related Field
-1

Examples in Context

  1. This is the ability to define an identity provider that can accept user credentials ( ID, password, certificate, and so on ) and return a signed security token to identify the user.
  2. The OpenID provider ( sometimes also referred to as the identity provider ) offers the services of registering a user identity and providing OpenID authentication.
  3. Integration with an identity provider.
  4. Authentication statements asserts to the service provider that the principal did certainly authenticate with the identity provider at a particular time using a well-defined method of authentication.
  5. The Service Consumer can either obtain them directly from an Identity Provider, or it can obtain the data in a different form and convert it to a SAML representation.

Other meanings of IDP