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Authentication

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ATHENS Authentication Service: System developed by NISS to enable controlled access to subscription services.
Author: NISS, Bath University
Subjects: authentication
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: software
ELib Authentication Concertation Day 10th March 1999: Full text of presentations about some of the issues surrounding authentication, including the Athens authentication system and its implications for electronic or hybrid libraries, as well as alternative and international approaches.
Author: UKOLN
Subjects: authentication
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: proceedings
Identity Authentication and E-Commerce: Refereed article discussing the use of identity authentication systems in the conduct of electronic commerce. Investigates the variety of identity authentication systems available, and argues that this area is in particular need of further research.
Author: Ford, Matthew D.
Subjects: authentication, electronic commerce
DeweyClass: 384.3
Resource type: article
Implementing a National Access Management System for Electronic Services: Discussion of the issues attached to the implementation of the ATHENS access management system. Points out that the lessons from ATHENS could suggest that success will only be achieved if at least equal attention is paid to the needs of those who will have to manage the final system as to the technical detail.
Author: Wiseman, Norman
Subjects: authentication, digital library management, higher education administration, internet security
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
Information Online and On Disc 99: Strategies for the Next Millennium: Proceedings of the Ninth Australasian Information Online and On Disc Conference and Exhibition, held in Sydney Australia, January 1999. Many of the papers reflect the challenges of managing information. Issues include access and rights, sustaining sites, improving access via gateways, verification and authentication, search engines and directories, integration with existing library information systems, and using the technology of the Internet in tasks such as serving remote library users.
Author: Australian Library and Information Association Information Science Section
Subjects: authentication, digital library management, electronic commerce, electronic publishing, information management in libraries
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: proceedings
Regaining Single Sign-On: Article describing username and password problems for computer users and support staff, caused by the growth of networked dataset providers. Problems are discussed in relation to security and interworking between authentication domains.
Author: Findlay, Andrew
Subjects: authentication
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
Remote Authentication and Authorization for JSTOR: Article which examines four alternative solutions to the problems and requirements of authentication of access to networked information resources: Mechanical Proxies, Application Proxies, Credential Based approaches, and a Proxy/Credential Hybrid. It concludes that campuses must establish authentication schemes, and that successful schemes will be able to mask their complexity from users.
Author: Fuchs, Ira H.
Subjects: authentication
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
Technologies to Support Authentication in Higher Education: Study of the technologies available to support authentication, reviews the needs expressed by a set of people contacted for the study, and provides the beginnings of a road-map on how a national system might be established.
Author: Young, A; Kirstein, P. & Ibbetson, A.
Subjects: authentication, higher education administration
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
UCCAP: University of California Common Authentication Project: A collection of documents from a project which is working to provide a certificate / public key infrastructure that will meet authentication needs of all the campuses of the University of Califronia.
Author: University of California
Subjects: authentication
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: documents
White Paper on Authentication and Access Management Issues in Cross-organizational Use of Networked Information Resources: Document released in April 1998 which aims to identify current issues in authentication and to provide a framework for analyzing them, to map out the various best-practice approaches to solving these problems using existing and emerging technology, to provide a common vocabulary and framework to assist in the development of licensing and resource-sharing agreements, and to highlight technical and policy considerations that need to be addressed as part of these business negotiations.
Author: Coalition for Networked Information
Subjects: authentication
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: document
X509 Digital Certificate Strand: Article offering explanations of key concepts, details on using Sun's Java Web Server to press digital certificates for use with Netscape Web browsers, and a discussion of progress required to develop digital certificates which could manage computer access effectively. The content of a digital certificate is covered, along with issuing policies.
Author: University of Leeds
Subjects: authentication
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article