Introduction to Moa

Moa (Machine and Organization Authentication) is a federation for authenticating organizations and their systems (clients and servers) across organizational borders. Moa is used in Skolfederation for securing informational flows between schools and service providers, eg, user identity provisioning based on standards EGIL and SS12000, and the ordering and delivery of digital learning materials (BoL). However, Moa's function is not limited to a specific sector or purpose of use. As Moa is only involved in the authentication process, the federation is content/data agnostic.

Moa is based on Mutually Authenticating TLS in the context of Federations (MATF), formerly known as FedTLS. MATF extends mutual TLS with federation functionality, enabling secure authentication while allowing organizations, clients, and servers to be tagged with additional attributes for authorization, information sharing, and server discovery.