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For those merchants that choose to utilise this feature, it adds a further level of assurance and can mitigate against exploitation by other users or third parties, ensuring that the user subject to the validation is not only affiliated with academia, but is affiliated with a specific institution. Please send email info@inacademia.org to request that ‘idp_hint’ is configured as an allowed claim for your client. The OIDC implementation guidelines provide more details on claims.
Attribute override
This new feature adds support for eduPersonEntitlement in specified national identity federations only, to be utilised as additional assurance. This is currently only planned for use in Sweden to denote students actively participating in the current semester.
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