Welcome to Skiffer — your secure digital meeting space
Skiffer is a video conferencing solution for secure digital meetings. The service is provided by Tutus, and all infrastructure is located in Sweden in security-classified facilities and administered by security-cleared personnel. Skiffer offers authenticated meetings using all Swedish approved e-identifications as well as those covered by the European eIDAS regulation.
To book meetings in Skiffer, you need a moderator account. If you don’t have an account, please contact us at sales@tutus.se or sign up here. If you have obtained a moderator account and received a license number, you need to register. Make sure you have your e-identification ready. By registering, you accept the service’s terms of use.
If you are unable to use an approved e-identification, you can instead obtain a moderator account limited to creating unauthenticated meetings. In that case, you can register using a Google account or a FIDO2 token (e.g., Yubikey).
User guide
Skiffer does not require any special software to be installed on your computer and runs directly in the Chrome and Edge browsers. For the best experience on mobile. A Skiffer conference is set up in three simple steps:
• Book a conference
• Invite participants
• Join the conference
Getting started:
1. Book a conference
Using your web browser, go to the Skiffer booking page: skiffer.tutus.se The booking page is available in both Swedish and English.
Enter a name for the conference.
Specify whether e-identification should be required to join by selecting the option Authenticated video conference.
Enter the date, time, and duration of the conference. Note that a conference may continue beyond the scheduled end time.
If the meeting is recurring, check the box Recurring conference.
Enter a description of the meeting (optional).
Click Book.
2. Invite participants
Once you have booked a conference, you can invite participants in several ways. Under the Your bookings tab, you will find multiple options.
Add to calendar – downloads a calendar invitation (.ics file) that you can import into your calendar and then use to invite participants.
Email invitation – opens your email client with a prepared invitation message and the meeting link, ready to send to participants.
Copy link – copies the meeting link to your clipboard so you can paste it into any application and forward it to participants.
Share – allows you to share the meeting link from a mobile device or tablet to any compatible application.
Please note that the meeting link (https://skiffra.se/xxxxx) contains the “key” needed to join a conference and should therefore be handled confidentially and only shared with those who are intended to participate. You can also choose to use a password for added protection.
Also note that the tabs My bookings and Recently visited conferences use cookies to function. If you change computer or browser, clear your cookies, or use incognito mode, there is a risk that your booked conferences will no longer be visible. We therefore recommend always including yourself when inviting participants to a conference, to ensure that you as the moderator have access to the meeting link when the conference is about to start.
3. Join the conference
Moderators
As a moderator, the easiest way to join a scheduled conference is by clicking the conference name under the My bookings tab. You can join the conference at any time. It may be useful to join a little before the meeting starts to check your microphone and camera, and to configure any meeting settings before other participants are allowed to enter. As a moderator, your first and last name, as well as your authentication method, will be displayed to the other participants.
Please note that Skiffer does not save any information or settings for meetings without active participants. If you want to adjust meeting settings, you need to stay in the meeting until it begins.
Participants
Invited participants join by clicking the invitation link they received or by entering it directly in their browser. Participants who try to join before the scheduled meeting time will enter a waiting room that counts down to the start of the conference. When the time comes, participants are automatically directed into the meeting.
For authenticated meetings, the participant’s first and last name and the e-identification used will be shown to other participants, for example: Stig Nilsson (BankID). For non-authenticated meetings, participants can choose how they want their name to be displayed.
Skiffer Features
Skiffer has a menu with buttons for various functions.
Microphone – Click the microphone icon to turn your microphone on or off. Click the ^ symbol to select which microphone and speakers to use.
Camera – Click the camera icon to turn your camera on or off. Click the ^ symbol to select which camera to use.
Screen sharing – Click the screen-sharing icon to choose what to share: your entire screen, a browser tab, or a specific window. Click the icon again to stop sharing.
Chat – The chat feature allows participants to send messages. You can also send private messages to individual participants by clicking their video window and selecting Private message.
Polling – The chat panel also includes a tab for creating polls.
Raise hand – Click the hand icon to signal that you wish to speak or draw attention during the meeting.
Tile view – Click the tile view icon to switch between a view showing all participants and a view that focuses on the active speaker.
Personal settings – Click the circle with your initials to access personal settings. Note that changing your display name will not update how it appears to other participants.
Meeting settings – Click the three dots to access additional meeting settings. Here you can enable a virtual background, set a meeting password, and activate the lobby function (if you are the moderator).
Waiting Room
The waiting room is a feature that requires the moderator to actively approve all participants before they are allowed to join the meeting. A moderator who wants to enable the waiting room must log in to the meeting before the scheduled start time and activate it by clicking the three dots → Security options → Enable waiting room. The moderator must remain logged in until the meeting starts for the setting to remain active.
Password
As a moderator, you can further protect a conference with a password. For security, the password should be sent through a channel other than the invitation link. The moderator sets the password and must enter it in the meeting settings (three dots → Security options → Add password) before the official meeting start time for it to take effect. A password can also prevent participants who have been removed from rejoining the meeting.
Important: If both a password and the waiting room are enabled, participants who know the password can join the meeting without being admitted by the moderator.
Remove Participants
A moderator can remove participants from the meeting who should not be allowed to stay. Click the menu in the participant’s window (three vertical dots) and select Disconnect. To prevent the participant from attempting to rejoin, the moderator can set a new password before removing them.
Q/A
For the service to function properly, the following ports must be open from your browser or mobile device to 80.72.3.160/27: TCP ports 443 and 5349, and UDP ports 10000 and 3478. Please contact your IT administrator or IT department for assistance with this.
If TLS Intercept / SSL Inspection is used, an exception must be made for 80.72.3.160/27. Hostname: turn2.skiffer.tutus.se.
Currently, there is a technical limit of 100 participants per individual conference.
With end-to-end encryption enabled, the maximum is 20 participants per individual conference.
No, these browsers lack required features and may also negatively affect the user experience for other participants.
This is because the client only retrieves video feeds from the most recently active participants in order to reduce the load on both the client and the network.
To prevent PowerPoint from running in full-screen mode, go to Slide Show → Set Up Slide Show and select Browsed by an individual (window).
Then, share your PowerPoint window in Skiffer (not your entire screen). This way, you can run the presentation without it taking over all other windows on your desktop.
Total Participants / Participants with video at the same time
2-29 / 20
30-49 / 15
50-69 / 10
70-89 / 5
90+ / 2
Skiffer supports strong authentication in Sweden with, among others, BankID, Freja, the Swedish Tax Agency ID card, eIDAS, and SITHS cards.
Abroad, strong authentication via Freja E-ID works in the following countries: