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18/05/21 – Mind the Gap is WAYF's version, very lightweight, of the RA21 button (the recommended standard for laying out federated access on service provider websites). Any service provider offering federated...
06/04/21 – Reykjavík University (RU) today has joined WAYF as a user organisation. And so, staff and students here now have the ability to identify as such vis-à-vis a...
28/02/21 – The Danish National Archives today has joined WAYF as an identity provider. Consequently, staff here now have the ability to identify as DNA users vis-à-vis the many web services in WAYF and...
11/02/21 – The company Fundraiseren I/S today has completed its technical integration into WAYF of its service, Fonde.dk – an online tool to ease institutions' fundraising efforts. Fonde.dk...
14/01/21 – All data traffic from WAYF is signed using a private key residing in a hardware security module ('HSM'), and so the key cannot be hacked.
WAYF's current HSMs are, however, end-of-life, and in the process of being replaced by two new ones.
WAYF's new HSMs are two...
14/01/21 – Some of the user attributes that WAYF supports passing on to services from user organisations have a very large value space and in many cases, only a rather small subset of the possible values are of relevance to the provider of the service.
One example is the isMemberOf...
03/11/20 – As reported by the Danish Agency for Public Finance and Management (in Danish), institutions connected to...
20/10/20 – LAWschool today has completed its integration with WAYF as a service provider, and so now offers students at subscriber institutions easy access to a comprehensive learning platform for...
16/09/20 – The Rhythmical Music Conservatory today has joined WAYF as an identity provider. Consequently, students and staff here now have the ability to identify as RMC users vis-à-vis the many web...
11/09/20 – Ilisimatusarfik, the University of Greenland, today has joined WAYF as an identity provider. Consequently, students and staff here now have the...