UK Access Management Federation
for Education and Research
The UK federation is operated by Jisc and provides a single solution to accessing online resources and services for education and research. Here is some information on how it works and its benefits.
Eligible organisations are invited to join the current membership.
Latest news
We have stopped warning about expiring self-signed trust fabric certificates
Posted on Thursday, 31 October 2019
The UK federation follows the SAML Metadata Interoperability Profile. This profile requires that a trust fabric certificate in metadata is treated only as a convenient wrapper for a cryptographic public key, with none of the additional semantics normally associated with certificates, such as a check against its expiry date.
End of Support for Shibboleth V2 Identity Provider
Posted on Thursday, 17 October 2019
The UK federation will be ending its support for Shibboleth V2 Identity Provider (IdP) deployments on December 31st 2019.
Why we are doing this:
Shibboleth IdP v2 IdP deployments have been End of Life since July 2016 and ending support for this will allow effort to be focused on current deployments.
Who does this concern:
The UK federation support team has contacted institutions and organisations known to be running Shibboleth IdP v.2 software, however it is possible that some remain unidentified in which case if you believe your institution may be running Shibboleth IdP v2 please consider the action detailed below.
Shibboleth IdP version 4
Posted on Monday, 14 October 2019
The next version of the Shibboleth IdP (version 4) will remove some configuration elements that IdP deployers in the UK federation rely on. Every Shibboleth IdP deployer must change their configuration to use the new elements that have been available since v3.4.0. The changes are typically small and well-defined, and IdP 3.4 will log warnings for deprecated elements. The UK federation lists the most relevant actions in Deprecated features in Shibboleth IdP v3 will be removed in v4 (https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/content/Documents/DeprecationIdPv4). You have a few months window of opportunity to reconfigure deprecated elements to ensure a smooth transition to IdP v4 when it is released.
Successful Attribute Release and eduGAIN IdP Health Check Webinar
Posted on Friday, 24 May 2019
The following webinar is being advertised on behalf of GÉANT and the eduGAIN interfederation service (of which the UK federation is a member).
Still too often accessing federated services today does not work because attribute release at the Identity Provider does not work. This is frustrating for end users, services and the research collaborations operating many eduGAIN services. Bad attribute release hinders research!
The webinar takes place on 03 July 2019 from 10:00 to 11:00 am CEST (09:00 to 10:00 BST / UK local time),