News
18/03/19 – WAYF both accepts and itself issues digital signatures using the SHA-1 hashing algorithm. This, however, will end on July 1, 2019: From then on, WAYF will only accept signatures based on SHA-256...
06/03/19 –
The HPC Wiki at German research university RTWH Aachen is part of...
20/02/19 – CodeRefinery – a project under the Nordic's NeIC cooperation – operates a GitLab instance for managing the...
04/02/19 – Learnmark Horsens has now re-joined WAYF as an identity provider. Consequently, students and staff here now again have the ability to identify with their Learnmark user...
01/02/19 – The on-line medium, Altinget, has now been connected to WAYF. Consequently, premium content on the website is now accessible with user accounts from subscriber institutions also...
01/02/19 – January, 2019 was WAYF's first month with more than 3m logins.
Ever since operations began back in 2008, login traffic through WAYF's hub servers has been increasing steadily. And growth appears to be continuing.
Development in WAYF's traffic figures can be followed at the...
07/12/18 – Since 2011, service and identity providers have had to maintain their metadata (i.e., their configurations) in WAYF's registry using the system JANUS. We now, however, retire JANUS, replacing it by a new system, mEdit:
mEdit has been implemented as an extension to...
28/11/18 – The large career portal for students and graduates, Graduateland, has now joined WAYF as a service provider. Consequently, Danish educational institutions subscribing to...
28/11/18 – Aarhus University this week became the fourth Danish organisation to declare itself compliant with SIRTFI, a protocol for handling security incidents involving federated identity. Holders of Arhus University...
05/11/18 – Since WAYF launched its new software platform in July, 2018, the end user has had the option to have WAYF remember the institution where he wants to authenticate when accessing each service he uses, thus avoiding having to re-choose this institution from a list on every access...