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Introduction

Goal of this challenge is to assess a critical part of the eduGAIN communication infrastructure. In this first round the security contact addresses of Participants (see below) were tested. The security contacts email addresses were retrieved from the eduGAIN Database using the APIs published on the technical site. The procedure used to retrieve the email addresses is available on the GEANT gitlab:

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Challenge timeline

• 2020-09-xy 15 Communication challenge proposal presented to esg, proposal got acceptedthe eduGAIN Steering Group meeting.
• 2020-12-04 Announcement of the challenge dates to esg and participantsthe eduGAIN Steering Group via the eSG mailing list.
• 2020-12-15 Start of the challenge.
• 2020-12-23 End of the challenge.
• 2020-12-23 Public report available (this wiki)

Challenge announcement and start

The challenge has been officially announced to the eduGAIN Steering Group on the 4th of December via the eSG mailing list. In the announcement it was not specified the exact date of the challenge, but only a three days interval, from the 15th to the 17th of December.

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What was assessed

Besides the validity of the available contact addresses also the reaction time was measured. This information was collected to be used as input for a later discussion on response times. The community would need to define target reaction times, which are regarded to be useful to be used in security incident coordination situations.

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