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13/05/20 – It does have a visible impact on WAYF's login traffic statistics that Denmark's research and higher-education sector has seen increasing online working in recent weeks.
Before the COVID19 Crisis, a regular morning would see a good 300 logins a minute, and a good 17,000 logins an...
25/03/20 – On Monday, March 23rd 2020, users attempting to access web services through WAYF sporadically met with error messages like CKR_TOKEN_NOT_PRESENT and encryption error.
This instability was caused by DNS issues at WAYF's supplier, NORDUnet A/S. Here, with Denmark in a...
25/02/20 – Many developers find it difficult to work with the SAML2 protocol and XML — which up until now has been unavoidable when integrating web services with WAYF. Rather more manageable, typically, is working with JSON and JSON Web Tokens (JWT) — already familiar to many developers...
22/11/19 – WAYF continues its triumphal progress in the Faroe Islands — with admission this week of its third Faroese identity provider, Próvstovan.
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20/11/19 – Er du klar på hvad WAYF rent faktisk kan gøre for jer hvis jeres institution er tilsluttet, eller I driver eller skal til at drive en loginbeskyttet tjeneste? Overse ikke fordelene – læs vores flyer.
06/11/19 – The attention of service providers using SimpleSAMLphp is directed to the fact that a critical vulnerability has just been discovered in that software. Learn more here.
19/09/19 – The University of the Faroe Islands today completed its technical integration with WAYF as an identity provider. With this, WAYF has...
11/07/19 – Aarhus School of Architecture has now joined WAYF, as an identity provider. Consequently, staff and students here now have the ability to identify as such with their AARCH user accounts vis-...
26/06/19 – If you operate an application connected to WAYF as an SP or an IdP, please pay attention that from August 15 on, WAYF will validate and itself issue digital signatures exclusively based on the SHA-256 hashing algorithm.
This is not...
11/06/19 – If you provide a service receiving logins from WAYF, you will have to make sure that your service is capable of validating SAML signatures based on the SHA-256 hashing algorithm, from July 1. From that day on, WAYF will no longer issue...