News
27/10/21 – Researchers from countries participating in the LUMI consortium will, through eduGAIN, get access to the LUMI...
15/10/21 – WAYF has now been certified according to the information security standard, ISO 27001. This is...
10/08/21 – Marstal School of Navigation today has joined WAYF as an identity provider. Consequently, students and staff here now have the ability to identify as MARNAV users...
27/05/21 – The Danish Cancer Society recently joined WAYF as an identity provider. Consequently, staff here now have the ability to identify as such vis-à-vis the many web services in...
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...