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Set to 14 day validity window

nroy opened Feb 18, 2025
main 13-fix-2-week-expo
dshafer opened Feb 4, 2025
1 comment
main mdq-cert

For the v13 release we need to incorporate the upstream changes from the UKf repository, including the switch to MDA 0.10.0. This may need to be done in a couple of tranches as the upstream repository ...

iay opened Sep 26, 2024
6 comments

Recently, a couple entity descriptors from GRNET contained backticks ( `) at the end of the mailto: . We should reject entity descriptors with malformed mailto: URIs.

nroy opened Oct 12, 2022

While reviewing build.xml for the upstream (UKf) deployment, I notice that this one differs in a way I m sure wasn t intended. We should probably resolve this prior to the next merge, whenever that comes ...

iay opened Feb 11, 2022

For v11, we should perform another merge to bring in changes from the upstream UK federation tooling.

iay opened Feb 15, 2021
4 comments
iay opened Feb 15, 2021
1 comment
dev/v10.1 15-accept-mil-no

The FEIDE IdP, imported from eduGAIN, claims the mil.no scope on behalf of the Norwegian military. Our current configuration rejects this because it is a public suffix. We d like to accept it nevertheless. ...

iay opened Jan 29, 2021
5 comments

The upstream tooling has code to check the length of Logo elements. It introduces two thresholds. - By default, any Logo longer than 50,000 characters is removed from the entity (the entity itself is ...

iay opened Jul 15, 2020
3 comments