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
R&S attribute support for COVID researchers
Posted on Friday, 27 March 2020
How your institution can support COVID research with federated access Research and Scholarship attribute release
Chrome Samesite issue (Last updated 31 January)
Posted on Thursday, 30 January 2020
The way web browsers handle cookies is changing soon. This can have an impact on some configurations of Identity Providers and, Service Providers. The impact may vary from no impact to 'Single Sign On stops working' (users are challenged for username/password every time) to 'entirely not working' depending on the configuration of your IdP or SP and the flow of HTTP messages between them. Please ensure this message is passed on to someone in your organisation who can check the impact on your service The updated UK federation webinar on this issue can be found here: https://youtu.be/avpj1FFXMZA
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.