Dear SWITCH edu-ID announce subscribers, a lot of things happened since our last newsletter. Some of them are documented in our blog https://identityblog.switch.ch. Trust & Identity WG Meeting and SWITCH edu-ID Update Event, 20.5.2020: --------------------------------------------------------------- Please consider to participate in our next event - this time as online session - to get the latest news and background information, as well as to discuss questions and issues with us. Registration is mandatory and open until May 8: https://www.switch.ch/edu-id/events/trid-wg-2020 Additional call for funding in project Swiss edu-ID end of May: ------------------------------------------------------- The Swiss edu-ID project running since 2014 offers funding opportunities for edu-ID adoption efforts of Swiss universities. The originally planned last opportunity to join the project ended in March. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, SWITCH decided to add another opportunity to join the project. Please contact eduid(a)switch.ch before end of May 2020, if you want to make sure that you get your edu-ID adoption efforts funded. Some more universities have adopted SWITCH edu-ID: ------------------------------------------------ - UNISG on July 17 2019 - ZHAW on October 18 2019 - ZHdK on January 8 2020 - UNIFR on January 28 2020 (see articles on https://identityblog.switch.ch/) Maximum of two adoptions per month: ------------------------------------ Most of the universities are currently planning the adoption of SWITCH edu-ID (compare https://www.switch.ch/edu-id/about/participants/) but it has been shown that for some organisations this takes more time. Many adoptions are planned for 2020 and 2021. A maximum of two adoptions per month can be performed. Therefore it is recommended to arrange a time slot with SWITCH as early as possible. SLSP will use SWITCH edu-ID from Dec. 2020 on: -------------------------------------------- The Swiss Library Service Platform users will authenticate with SWITCH edu-ID accounts from December 2020 on. This means that library users from most universities will use a SWITCH edu-ID account to access library catalogues: - https://identityblog.switch.ch/2020/04/29/behind-the-scenes-of-slsp-and-swi… - https://identityblog.switch.ch/2020/04/01/switch-edu-id-as-door-opener-for-… eduroam.ch pilot phase: ---------------------- SWITCH wants to offer a Swiss-wide solution for WiFI access on campuses with authentication via SWITCH edu-ID with the potential to replace local RADIUS server. Currently the demand is being clarified with the universities and SWITCH will soon contact the IT managers about this again: https://identityblog.switch.ch/2019/12/01/eduroam-goes-edu-id/ SPNEGO-Kerberos login with SWITCH edu-ID: ----------------------------------------- Some universities would like to extend the desktop login to neighbouring systems. A successful demo of a cross-realm authentication with SWITCH edu-ID in a Windows environment took place in January 2020 at FHNW. Please contact eduid(a)switch.ch if you consider to offer SSO-experience to your domain-joined clients with SPNEGO. Open ID Connect (OIDC): ----------------------- In August 2019 the Shibboleth OIDC module was successfully added to a test IdP at SWITCH, and it was configured such that an OIDC Relying Party (RP) could use it for authentication. The provisioning of this as a productive part of the SWITCH edu-ID service will take a while since other important work packages are tackled with higher priority, like, e.g. the task to increase the availability and elasticity of the SWITCH edu-ID service even more. Please contact eduid(a)switch.ch if you would like to test service connections with OIDC. Read only mode for technical accounts: ------------------------------------ Administrators can now set technical accounts as read-only to prevent password reset and other activities on account level and therefore keep full control of such read-only accounts. Although SWITCH doesn’ recommend this, it can be useful when technical accounts are intended for temporary use by other people. End user help in 4 languages: ---------------------------- The FAQs are now available in English, German, French and Italian to better support end users: https://help.switch.ch/eduid/faqs/ Would you like to learn more details first hand? Then visit the TRID WG meeting / SWITCH edu-ID Update Event (online) on May 20! Your SWITCH edu-ID team -- ------------------------------------------------- SWITCH Petra Kauer-Ott, SWITCH edu-ID Werdstrasse 2, P.O. Box, 8021 Zurich, Switzerland phone +41 44 268 15 15, direct +41 44 268 15 69 petra.kauer(a)switch.ch, http://www.switch.ch https://www.switch.ch/edu-id/ Working for a better digital world -------------------------------------------------