Distributed Authentication
by earl, 8415 days ago
just some braindump in progress
Technologies- Kerberos
- LDAP (Novell NDS/DirXML, Microsoft ADS, ...)
- HMAC
Designing an Authentication System: a Dialogue in Four Scenesexcellent Kerberos tutorial
RFC 2104 - HMAC Authenticating XML-RPCa quite interesting approach to authenticated XML-RPC making extensive use of HTTP (all authentication is basically done with HTTP-headers).
Nareau: http://nareau.weblogs.com/ ICEPick: http://www.dbxml.com/icepick.xml PassPal: http://entries.the5k.org/609/passpal.htm XNS: http://earl.strain.at/space/XNS Distributed Membership and Preferences (DMAP) rather fuzzy and useless, the interesting parts are the discussions around it
- http://www.xmlrpc.com/discuss/msgReader$1780
- http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/17/1524238&mode=thread
various other things:
who authenticates the authenticators?!slashdot posting; what about always-nay/yeah-sayers? (byzantine general problem)
- Raph Levian on that problem (PhD thesis): http://www.levien.com/thesis/
- Leslie Lamport on that problem: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/cs614-sp99/notes98/byzantine.html
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