Post #2860133
2025-09-17 15:48 UTC
@brembs@mastodon.social @leonido@chaos.social @mandrasch@social.tchncs.de @hauschke@mastodon.social There is a parallel authentication infrastructure called edugain that is more relevant for those services.
The eduroam authentication is (or at least was) highly specific for WiFi and is not suited for other services. Many identity providers also use less secure passwords for eduroam to protect the normal passwords and to enable a more liberal storage policy for passwords at both the issuer end and the user end.
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@brembs@mastodon.social 2025-09-17 15:50
@ahltorp@mastodon.nu @leonido@chaos.social @mandrasch@social.tchncs.de @hauschke@mastodon.social Cool, thanks! Will look up edugain and keep it in mind!
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@ahltorp@mastodon.nu 2025-09-17 16:26
Technically, the eduroam auth can be used for other things than WiFi, like wired network authentication, but that is a very marginal activity. (Also, I can read German, it just takes a very long time for me to write German, so I only do it occasionally)