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SP private key and SP certificate must both be in PEM format. Use any tool of your choice to generate self-signed certificate and private key. After you have configured all SP metadata settings, you can download automatically generated SP metadata.xml by clicking the link Download automatically generated SP metadata. You will need to import this xml file to the SAML IdP. You can make any changes to the xml file if needed as it is not cryptographically signed.
IdP settings
IdP settings consist of only single field where you can import the metadata XML file provided to you by the SAML IdP administrator. The XML file is structurally validated but testing is required to make sure everything works as expected.
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