Authentication Resources

Tom Klingler
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio 44242-0001
U.S.A

1. Summaries & Overviews
   • A summary site on the subject at Carnegie Mellon
     
     
   • Security and the Digital Library: A Look at Authentication and Authorization Issues" compiled by Keith Powell and Wayne Jones
     
     
   • Technologies to Support Authentication in Higher Education by A. Young, P.T. Kirstein, A. Ibbetson.
     
     
2. Bluestem....The UIUC WWW Identification Service
   This is the CIC group (known to football fans as the Big-10.)
   
   
3. Kerberos Solutions
   • Kerberos at USC
     
     
   • A class on Kerberos at Rochester
     
     
4. Columbia
   • User Authentication at Columbia
     
     
   • Access Management of Web-based Services An Incremental Approach to Cross-organizational Authentication and Authorization by Ariel Glenn and David Millman, Columbia University
     
     
5. CNI
   • The CNI Program on Authentication, Authorization and Access Management
     
     
   • CNI White Paper on Authentication
     
     
6. Authentication Project Planning Group (Stanford) of the Common Solutions Group
   
   
7. The SRP Authentication System at Stanford.
   
   "SRP stands for the Secure Remote Password protocol, and it represents a new mechanism for performing password-based authentication and key exchange over potentially insecure networks. SRP offers both security and convenience improvements over authentication techniques currently in use."
   
   
8. Berkeley
   • The BMRC Authentication Project at Berkeley
     
     
   • The ISAAC group at Berkeley --ISAAC: Internet Security, Applications, Authentication and Cryptography
     
     
9. Authentication at The University of Michigan and detail on their RADIUS project.and a piece on RADIUS: Distributed Authentication for MichNet
   
   
10. Another Michigan project-- Configuring Proxy To Connect To Another Proxy
    
    
11. Athens: A British Solution
    
    
12. Remote Access : description of Shiva functionalities...a commercial solution.
    
    
13. NCSA
    • Authentication with NCSA httpd
      
      
    • NCSA HTTPd User Authentication Introduction
      
      
    • AFS Authentication at NCSA
      
      
    • WWW Authentication Demo -- htpasswdB
      
      "htpasswdB is a slightly modified version of the htpasswd program distributed with NCSA httpd"
      
      
    • General WWW security concerns
      
      
14. Encryption - Authentication - Transaction Security - Secure Remote Access ...for someone needing a nice site visit!!
    
    
15. IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force
    • The Internet Engineering Task Force
      
      
    • Current Internet-Drafts at the IETF.
      
      
    • One Time Password Authentication (otp)
      
      
    • RADIUS drafts at the IETF
      
      
16. DLF: Digital Library Federation
    • Digital Certificate Prototype
      
      
    • Project Overview: Digital Library Authentication and Authorization Architecture
      
      
    • A Digital Library Authentication and Authorization Architecture
      
      
17. Internet2
    • Shibboleth Project "...open source implementation to support inter-institutional sharing of web resources subject to access controls..."
      
      
    • Internet2 Middleware Internet2 Middleware Site
      
      
18. External Authentication Module
    
    
19. Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) under Solaris
    
    
20. The University of Akron plan and their Background Paper presented at the CUMREC
    
    
21. A project using mSQL
    
    
22. Authentication at The University of California -- Davis