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Michiel Kodde edited this page Aug 15, 2023 · 11 revisions

Welcome to the OpenConext Stepup wiki!

This wiki contains an overview of OpenConext Stepup. Following the documentation policy, documentation that has a close relationship to one of the components is kept in the repository of that component.

Documentation Index

Related Repositories

Stepup Applications

All the applications (aka components) that can be deployed as part of OpenConext Stepup:

Stepup Deployment

The project includes Ansible playbooks for setting up and managing a complete OpenConext Stepup production infrastructure. There are also projects for building release tarballs of the Stepup Applications and a project for creating a test or development setup using Vagrant.

Libraries

Libraries that are used by the Stepup Applications and that are maintained as part of OpenConext Stepup:

Abandoned

More Information

CHANGELOG

The CHANGELOG in the Stepup-Deploy repo lists the changes of not only the deployment scrips, but also the changes in the Stepup Applications.

Pivotal Issue tracker

Much of the development discussions take place outside github in a pivotal tracker: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/1163646

Openconext.org

The Stepup project page on the openconext.org website.

SURFnet / SURFconext

SURFnet uses OpenConext (Stepup) to offer SURFconext (Strong Authentication) to its constituency. To that end it provides extensive documentation aimed at Identity Providers, Service Provides and users of the service in the SURFconext Strong Authenticaton section of the Get Conexted wiki.

The SURFconext Strong Authenticaton product page.

There is an animation introducing SURFconext Strong authentication.

The study (2012) a the root of the development of the Stepup software: https://www.surf.nl/en/knowledge-base/2012/report-step-up-authentication-as-a-service.html

TNC 2017 presentation "Step-up authentication and the art of creative SAML proxying" about the SAML concepts used in Stepup: https://tnc17.geant.org/core/presentation/44

Study on "Remote vetting" of users: https://www.surf.nl/binaries/content/assets/surf/nl/kennisbank/2018/201804_report_remote_vetting_for_surfconext_strong_authentication.pdf