However, my research of moonshot have resulted in the impression that it is quite early stage and requires a lot of custom patches to get well known software to work with it. In addition OSX is not supported at all which we require in addition to Windows and Linux.
Well, it's not *that* early-stage. The only software that requires patches currently is OpenSSH (the server). Using the version of FreeRADIUS that is on the Moonshot repository will give you access to the trust router infrastructure, but you can easily set up an infrastructure that does not rely on TLS (and instead uses UDP), provided you disable some of the functionality (such as channel bindings). But the point of the Moonshot technology is to help guarantee that the institution that accepted the authn request for the user *is* in fact the user's home institution. And unfortunately yes, we had to prioritise certain platforms, but Mac is the next priority because we've had several requests from research collaborations (including a Nordic one) to please make Moonshot available on Mac. :-)
Of course correct me if i am wrong, my impressions are based on what seems to be a half-finished wiki with some outdated information.
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