Last year we decided to investigate the OpenVPN client support of TLSv1.3 and EdDSA (Ed25519). One reason for doing this is, to stay current with algorithm...
Author - Karl Meyer
A number of research and education institutions in Europe, Asia and Africa have chosen to use eduVPN as their enterprise VPN solution. eduVPN has several...
With the ongoing global COVID-19 crisis, many people need to start working from home. Typically, the use of a VPN is required to be able to keep working. Many...
A new eduVPN macOS app is now available from the Apple App Store. This new version has been designed for macOS 10.14 and 10.15 and is based on the source code...
Upgrading from the non-App Store eduVPN for macOS installation to the version from the App Store, a residual “helper service” and some application...
We decided to investigate what it would take to modernize the cryptography used to establish the TLS control channel with OpenVPN. See our...
With the rise in public WiFi, more and more students and staff are accessing information across potentially insecure networks, risking their data being...
Today many thousands of students, staff and researchers work away from the main campus yet still need access to central services and data. Until now, providing...
Introduction The eduVPN service is positioned as the VPN service for the international research and education community. We were inspired by eduroam to offer a...
To make eduVPN easier to use, and allow users to select the VPN server they want to connect to, it makes sense to have them registered to be listed in the...
As of September 2019, two additional countries are available to the users of the eduVPN applications: Finland, operated by FUNET, and France, operated by...
Today we presented eduVPN at the NORDUnet Technical Workshop. You can download the presentations here: Introduction eduVPN @ SURFnet SAML & eduVPN Policy 2...
Today we presented eduVPN at the TNC19 side meeting. You can download the general eduVPN presentation, as well as the discussed policy 1.0 document: eduVPN...
Recently, during the upgrades to eduVPN 2.0, we’ve been having some trouble with the mod_auth_mellon Apache module. The Debian package generates invalid...
As announced, on May 14th we started the upgrade to eduVPN 2.0. It didn’t all go as smooth as hoped, but also not totally unexpected due to the...
On May 14th, all participating Secure Internet eduVPN servers will be upgraded to 2.0. This has to be done at the same time as the used OAuth tokens format...
Today eduVPN 2.0 server has been released. This new server version has been engineered to be more robust. Based on experiences in the field, like how we...
The eduVPN apps for Windows, macOS and Android have been available for quite a while. It took us more time to release an iOS app. The difficulty was we could...
On one hand eduVPN is a full open-source project, leveraging any organisation to deploy a large scale VPN service themselves. On the other side we’re...
In November we organized a two-day eduVPN workshop at SURFnet office in the Netherlands. This goal of the workshop was to bring together representatives of...
UPDATE: see Documentation for up to date information on how to install eduVPN. Currently the NRENs from Uganda, Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands have...
At TNC18 a two hour eduVPN workshop was organised. The presentations of this workshop are available below:
GEANT-eduVPN
eduVPN-TNC18
We have recently released newer eduVPN app versions: iOS app (bug fixes) for iOS the OpenVPN app is currently needed Android app (bug fixes like 2FA...
In order to make sure the eduVPN software is safe and secure we’ve asked the Digital Security Group of Radboud University to review our software...
Two articles about eduVPN that were recently published:
In the Field stories
GÉANT blog
eduVPN is a brand name we use for the educational & research community. For the software we’re developing we use the name: Let’s Connect...
The eduVPN app for Android was released in January 2017. Recently there are (beta) apps available for Windows and Linux as well. The Windows installers, which...
François Kooman, eduVPN lead developer, created an overview of the used eduVPN crypto.
Also an overview of how OAuth is being used in eduVPN is available here.
eduVPN enables students, employees and researchers to connect securely and encrypted to the Internet from any standard device. eduVPN integrates with the...
eduVPN integrates smoothly with federation services via SAML and currently most effort is put on creating easy-to-use and secure apps for Android, iOS, Windows...
eduVPN is an initiative of SURFnet, NORDUnet, DeiC and AARNet to make VPN technology commonly available, by building better and more user-friendly tools...
SURFnet will be the FIRST NREN offering eduVPN as a service to its constituency. Institutes in the Netherlands will be able to replace their current VPN...