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Title: InCommon Newsletter - March 2013

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March 2013

U.S. Government Approves New Assurance Profiles

Revisions Include Easier Path to Bronze

The revised InCommon Assurance Program specification documents have been approved by the U.S. government and include a much easier path toward Bronze certification. Among other changes, the new revision (version 1.2) removes the requirement of an audit for InCommon Bronze.

Virginia Tech Publishes Assurance Case Study

Virginia Tech has published an extensive case study, documenting its experience in qualifying for the InCommon Bronze and Silver assurance profiles. The document includes information about the stakeholders engaged during the process, a gap analysis, and specific steps taken to address various functional areas.

New Members Appointed to Assurance Advisory Committee

InCommon Steering has appointed three new members to the Assurance Advisory Committee: Debbie Bucci, Trisha Craig, and Doug Falk. The AAC oversees the InCommon Assurance Program.

Online Trust Alliance Publishes Best Practices Document

The Online Trust Alliance has published a white paper entitled, "Enhancing Trust and the Integrity of SSL: Certification Authority Best Practices." [PDF] Joe St Sauver, University of Oregon and manager of InCommon's certificate and multifactor programs, contributed to the report.

Weak Keys (Almost) Eradicated from Metadata

Thanks to an extensive nine-month campaign by InCommon operations staff, with significant help and cooperation from the community, almost every weak key (1048-bit) has been removed from InCommon metadata. The number of weak keys dropped from 149 on June 1, 2012, to just a handful today.

New Certificate Service Subscribers

The InCommon Certificate Service now has 228 subscribers. We welcome these new members to the community.

• Northeastern University
• Oregon State University
• St. Louis Community College
• University of California - Santa Cruz
• University of Hawaii
• University of the Pacific

New Participants in February

InCommon currently has 510 participants. We welcome these new participants to the InCommon community

Higher Education

• Brandeis University (www.brandeis.edu)
• California University of Pennsylvania (www.calu.edu)
• Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) Office of the Chancellor (www.passhe.edu)
• St. Louis Community College (www.stlcc.edu)
• University of Connecticut (www.uconn.edu)
• University of the Pacific (www.pacific.edu)

Sponsored Partners

• Publishing Technology (www.publishingtechnology.com)

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Featured Events

March 13, 2013
IAM Online - 3 pm ET
Three Campus Case Studies of Managing Access with Grouper
www.incommon.org/iamonline

Is your campus looking for more efficient ways to manage access to course materials, administrative data, and even HR data? Wondering how to set up roles and permissions for administrators, staff and students allowing them to access the resources they need? Join us to hear three case studies from three campuses highlighting how Grouper, the open source access management software from Internet2, is being used to address group and access management challenges

See the website for details on the program and how to participate.

Host and Moderator: Tom Barton, University of Chicago

Speakers:
Paul Donahue, University of Madison-Wisconsin
Sebastien Gagne, University of Montreal
Rahul Doshi and Michael Gettes, Carnegie Mellon University

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