From hardjono at MIT.EDU Tue Feb 3 14:11:21 2009 From: hardjono at MIT.EDU (Thomas Hardjono) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:11:21 -0500 Subject: New whitepaper on Kerberos-on-the-Web Message-ID: <001701c98633$33ba9610$9b2fc230$@edu> MIT-KC publishes new whitepaper on Kerberos-on-the-Web. One of the major goals of the MIT-KC is to establish Kerberos as a ubiquitous authentication mechanism on the Internet and also to make Kerberos appropriate for new environments. One of the key efforts within the MIT-KC directed at this goal is the Kerberos-on-the-Web (Kerb-Web) project. The Kerberos-on-the-web project seeks initially to investigate the various aspects of the development and deployment of Kerberos within the Web space. This includes, among others: (a) the use of the Kerberos authentication paradigm within the context of web-authentication and web-services security, (b) the possible architecture integration and interactions between the Kerberos infrastructure and web-services security infrastructure, (c) the possible enhancements of the Kerberos authentication protocol and Kerberos token in order to address the requirements for Single-Sign-On (SSO) on the Web and Web Identity Federation, and (d) the potential re-use of existing Kerberos infrastructure investments in enterprises and other organizations to support the deployment of Kerberos-on-the-Web solutions. In order to provide a starting point and context for discussions going forward regarding Kerberos-on-the-web, the MIT-KC has published a whitepaper on this topic. The whitepaper can be found in the following location: http://kerberos.org/software/kerbweb.pdf The MIT-KC would appreciate your inputs and comments regarding this whitepaper, and also your suggestions and recommendations more broadly regarding the Kerberos-on-the-Web project. Regards. Thomas Hardjono __________________________________________ Thomas Hardjono MIT Kerberos Consortium Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Ave W92-152 Cambridge, MA 02139 email: hardjono[at]mit.edu web: http://www.kerberos.org mobile: +1 781.729.9559 __________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/kerberos-announce/attachments/20090203/27de2d51/attachment.htm