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newsletter will
bring you
information
regarding new
developments, plans
for the future, tips
and tricks and will
appear on an
irregular basis.<br>
<br>
<span
style="font-weight:
bold;">Who
receives this
newsletter?</span><br>
All technical and
administrative
contacts of a
service connected to
SURFconext will
receive this
newsletter.
Subscribe <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://list.surfnet.nl/mailman/listinfo/surfconext-sp-newsletter">here</a>
and unsubscribe <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://list.surfnet.nl/mailman/options/surfconext-sp-newsletter">
here</a>.<br>
<br>
For an overview of
all mailings by the
SURFconext team, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.surfnet.nl/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=60701393">see
the following
page.</a><br>
<br>
In this edition:<br>
<ol>
<li>Hackathon:
connect your SP
to SURFconext</li>
<li>Webinar: best
identifier for
your job!</li>
<li>SURFconext
will migrate to
SHA-265 in 2018</li>
<li>Personal data
in your
metadata?</li>
<li>SP-Dashboard
live</li>
</ol>
<h1>Hackathon:
connect your SP to
SURFconext</h1>
June 25th we
organize a
hackathon/workshop
for everyone needing
some help connecting
their service to
SURFconext, either
using SAML or Open
ID Connect,
SURFsecureID
(formerly known as
Strong
Authentication),
groups/teams/VOOT
etc. Members of our
team will be at hand
to solve any hurdles
on the spot. At the
end of the
hackathon, your SP
should be (nearly)
connected. <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.surf.nl/agenda/2018/06/hackathon-%E2%80%93-sluit-je-dienst-aan-op-surfconext/index.html">Register
here!</a> Any
questions? Mail <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:raoul.teeuwen@surfnet.nl">raoul.teeuwen@surfnet.nl</a>.<br>
<h1>Webinar: best
identifier for
your job!</h1>
<p>What identifiers
are available when
connecting to
SURFconext? What
are the pros and
cons of them all?
In the 25 minute
webinar on
identifiers, June
26th, we'll tell
you all about it.
We'll record it so
you can also watch
it later.<br>
<br>
Keep an eye on <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.surf.nl/agenda/">the SURF
agenda</a>. More
information and
watch link will be
available soon.</p>
<h1>SURFconext will
migrate to SHA-256
in 2018</h1>
<p>The SHA-1 hashing
algorithm used by
SURFconext to
cryptographically
certify assertions
it sends to
Service Providers,
is considered
deprecated. In
order to be able
to keep
guaranteeing the
security of our<br>
service,
SURFconext will
migrate to the
more secure
SHA-256 hashing
algorithm.<br>
<br>
The switchover is
planned for the
fourth quarter of
2018. When the
concrete deadline
is known, it will
be announced to
the Service
Provider's listed
technical contact.<br>
<br>
Any reasonably
recent SAML 2.0
Service Provider
implementation
should already
support SHA-256.
If you are using a
very old version
of an
implementation or
library you may
need to upgrade.
The SURFconext
"test"<br>
and "staging"
environments will
be configured so
you can verify
that your Service
Provider is indeed
compatible with
the SHA-256
algorithm.<br>
<br>
The concrete
timeline will be
announced soon.
For more
information,
please refer <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.surfnet.nl/x/nwCtB">to our documentation</a>.<br>
</p>
<h1>Personal data in
your metadata?</h1>
<p>Service providers
and Identity
providers provide
contact details in
metadata to help
manage technical
support,
administrative
support and
security
management.
eduGAIN strongly
recommends that
these contacts
should be a
role-based name
and email address
and NOT personal
data wherever
practical. A Best
Current Practice
document will be
issued by eduGAIN
to all federation
operators.<br>
<br>
So you might want
to check your
metadata. <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://blog.geant.org/2018/04/02/edugain-gdpr-advice-published">Check
the following
page for more
GDPR related
tips</a>.</p>
<h1>SP-Dashboard
live</h1>
<p>We’re happy to
announce that the
Service Provider
Dashboard is live.
This dashboard
enables you to
independently
manage your
service(s) on the
SURFconext
platform. It
allows to create,
test and edit
entities before
promoting them to
production.</p>
<h4>New
functionalities</h4>
<p>-Your own
dashboard behind
SURFconext login.<br>
-Create unlimited
entities per SP.<br>
-Manage multiple
SP’s.<br>
-Answer GDPR
questions within
the dashboard.<br>
-Request
production
connection.</p>
<h4>Future
functionalities</h4>
<p>-Compatible with
OpenID Connect (at
this moment
SP-Dashboard is
SAML-only).<br>
-What institutions
will use your
service?<br>
-Single-/multi-tenant.</p>
<h4>SP-Dashboard vs
SP-Form</h4>
<p>At this moment
the SP-Form will
be available
alongside the
SP-Dashboard. In
the coming months
we will say
goodbye to the
SP-Form and the
SP’s and IdP’s
that exist there.
If you want to
migrate please let
us know.<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.surfnet.nl/display/surfconextdev/SP+Dashboard"><br>
<br>
Refer to the
documentation
for more
information</a>.
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