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SWITCHaai Transition to Shibboleth Identity Provider v3 is 80% complete

Back in May 2015, the Shibboleth Consortium announced July 31st 2016 as end-of-life date for the IdPv2 code base. A redesigned IdPv3.1.1 is available since March 2015. One month later, SWITCH announced the initial version of the SWITCHaai specific IdPv3 installation guide. In June and September 2015, SWITCH offered well-attended IdP training courses [4] on how to configure IdPv3. Since then, the number of IdPv3 installations has gradually increased to the 80% level it reached just at the beginning of the autumn semester 2016.

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10 Years SWITCHaai

In autumn 2005, SWITCH launched the production service for the SWITCHaai federation. Now more than 400’000 users from 60 institutions have a SWITCHaai enabled account that allows them to access their choice of more than 800 SWITCHaai enabled services.

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“No country can manage in isolation”

In an interview about the international ELIXIR project, we learn how research works across national borders. Read in the latest SWITCH Story by Tommi Nyrönen of ELIXIR Finland how eduGAIN is supporting pan-European research projects.

How to support Research with AAI

AAI is not only used within Switzerland. As of today there are 44 production and 17 pilot identity federations like AAI known around the world. 34 of the production federations are also part of the interfederation service eduGAIN, which interconnects these federations and allows AAI users of Interfederation-enabled Swiss institutions to access AAI services operated in other eduGAIN federations. Vice versa, AAI services in SWITCHaai (e.g. operated at CERN) now also be easily opened to and accessed by users from other eduGAIN federations.

Using AAI across national borders is in particular useful for research projects whose participants often come from different countries in the world. How research can benefit from eduGAIN and how SWITCH in the context of the GÉANT project is helping research projects to make use of AAI internationally is described in a new SWITCH story called “The recipe for cutting-edge international research“.