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<p class=MsoNormal>Towards Kerberizing Web Identity and Services: a new publication
from the MIT Kerberos Consortium<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>One of the major goals of the MIT Kerberos Consortium
(KIT-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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>(a) the use of the Kerberos authentication paradigm within
the context of web-authentication and web-services security,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>(b) the possible architecture integration and interactions
between the Kerberos infrastructure and web-services security infrastructure,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>(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<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>(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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>In order to provide a starting point and context for
discussions going forward regarding Kerberos-on-the-web, the MIT-KC has issued
a new publication entitled “<i>Towards Kerberizing Web Identity and
Services</i>”. This publication can be found in the following location:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://kerberos.org/software/kerbweb.pdf">http://kerberos.org/software/kerbweb.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The MIT-KC is seeking feedback and input specifically on
this publication. These can be addressed to the MIT-KC strategic advisor (<a
href="mailto:hardjono@mit.edu">hardjono@mit.edu</a>), addressed to the authors
of the publication and/or posted to the new mitkc-web mailing-list (see below).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Additionally, as an accompaniment to this new publication
the MIT-KC has created a new mailing-list dedicated to Kerberos-on-the-Web.
This mailing-list aims to be an open venue where issues and challenges in
bringing Kerberos to the Web can be discussed.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/mitkc-web">http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/mitkc-web</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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