Posts relating to the eduroam federation, which allows research and education institutions to authorise access by their users to wireless networks at other institutions across the globe.
Over the past twenty years, I’ve seen a lot of attempts to start information sharing schemes. And a lot of those have failed, some very slowly, despite huge amounts of effort. I wondered if there pointers that could be used, early on, to try to spot those. Story First, what is the story? If you […]
Many, perhaps most, wifi access services want to perform some sort of authentication of people who use them (for those providing connectivity via Janet, it’s a requirement of the Network Connection Policy). Since authentication involves some processing of personal data, it’s worth reviewing how different ways of doing that might be affected (or not) by […]
An interesting presentation at the TERENA TF-CSIRT meeting on how visited and home sites need to work together to resolve complaints about users of eduroam visitor networks. Stefan Winter is both an architect of eduroam and a member of RESTENA-CSIRT, so well placed to understand these issues. Although the JRS and eduroam Policies both require […]