Access Authorization Overview
- Status of this documentation:
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This is the documentation of WWW telnet-level Access
Authorization as implemented in October 1993
(Basic)
scheme, part of the WWW Common Library).
Contains also proposals for encryption level protection
(Pubkey scheme proposal and RIPEM based proposal).
Quick References
- AA protocol in a nutshell:
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Protocol examples.
- Setup in a nutshell:
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a quick manual on how to set
up protection in the CERN Daemon.
Complete Documentation
CERN Server:
Protection setup user manual.
Scheme specifications: Basic Protection
Scheme (Basic) as implemented in October 1993, Public Key Protection Scheme
(Pubkey) proposal, and RIPEM based
proposal by Tony
Sanders. This proposal was implemented by the NCSA team, see
documentation about PGP/PEM
encryption.
Details:
Browser side AA and Server side AA.
See also:
Vocabulary.
Ari Luotonen
Webmaster
Last updated 12 December 1993
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