News
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...
03/09/20 – The metadata of an identity federation is the authorised catalogue of authentication systems and restricted online resources participating in the federation and exchanging digital identities through it. Traditionally, federation metadata is distributed to participant systems in...
29/06/20 – OrdblindeLab ('DyslecticsLab') today completed its integration with WAYF, and so is now able to offer students at subscribing institutions convenient access to an array of dyslexia...