The Tshwane University of Technology have signed the Participation Agreement and joined SAFIRE as a fully functioning identity provider. Welcome TUT!

The Cape Peninsula University of Technology and Rhodes University have signed the Participation Agreement and joined SAFIRE. Both institutions are in the final stages of completing their SAML technical integration, and we would like to welcome them on board as a fully functioning identity providers very soon.

We’ve made a simple theme generator for SimpleSAMLphp available.

The time has come for the SAFIRE Participants Forum to re-elect Member Representatives seats for the Steering Committee 2018/2019. We are planning to hold this election during the SLA Reference Group meeting, to be held at Koponong Hotel on 15 August and all members of the Participants Forum would be welcome to attend the session (scheduled for 13:30). …

The University of Pretoria has signed the Participation Agreement and joined SAFIRE. They are in the process of completing their SAML technical integration, and we hope to welcome them on board as a fully functioning identity provider in the near future.

During the login process, end-users are shown a transfer notice with a summary of the information that will be shared with the service provider. We’ve changed the way this works. …

Terms of reference for the SAFIRE Participants’ Forum have been published.

Between 14:35 and 16:30 SAST on Thursday 10 May, SAFIRE’s federation hub experienced an unexpected failure that would have prevented any users from logging into federated services. …

A new high-availability architecture was recently deployed in order to improve the redundancy and resilience of the Federation infrastructure. …

The benefits identity federations, and specifically eduGAIN, bring to scientific cyberecosystems was the subject of a recent article in HPCwire. …