- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 10:19:25 -0700
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
A potentially relevant authentication technology. - Jim >Mime-Version: 1.0 >To: IETF-Announce@ietf.org >Sender:ietf-announce-request@ietf.org >From: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org >Reply-to: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org >Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-petke-remote-pass-auth-00.txt >Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 09:47:39 -0400 >X-Orig-Sender: cclark@ietf.org > > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts > directories. > > Title : Remote Passphrase Authentication > Author(s) : G. Brown > Filename : draft-petke-remote-pass-auth-00.txt > Pages : 40 > Date : 05/19/1997 > >Remote Passphrase Authentication provides a way to authenticate a user to a >service by using a pass phrase over an insecure network, without revealing >the pass phrase to eavesdroppers. In addition, the service need not know >and does not learn the user's pass phrase, making this scheme useful in >distributed environments where it would be difficult or inappropriate to >trust a service with a pass phrase database or to allow the server to learn >enough to masquerade as the user in a future authentication attempt. > >This scheme was inspired by Dave Raggett's Mediated Digest Authentication, >draft-ietf-http-mda-00.txt. > >This specification is divided into five parts. Part Zero contains an >extended introduction to the problem and potential solutions. Part One >explains the mechanism. Part Two explains how to incorporate the mechanism >into HTTP. Part Three explains the protocol between the service and deity. >Part Four explains the GSS-API token formats. Feel free to start with Part >One; Part Zero provides background information and is not a prerequisite >for Part One. > >Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username >"anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, >type "cd internet-drafts" and then > "get draft-petke-remote-pass-auth-00.txt". >A URL for the Internet-Draft is: >ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-petke-remote-pass-auth-00.txt > >Internet-Drafts directories are located at: > > o Africa: ftp.is.co.za > > o Europe: ftp.nordu.net > ftp.nis.garr.it > > o Pacific Rim: munnari.oz.au > > o US East Coast: ds.internic.net > > o US West Coast: ftp.isi.edu > >Internet-Drafts are also available by mail. > >Send a message to: mailserv@ds.internic.net. In the body type: > "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-petke-remote-pass-auth-00.txt". > >NOTE: The mail server at ds.internic.net can return the document in > MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this > feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" > command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or > a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers > exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with > "multipart" MIME messages (i.e., documents which have been split > up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on > how to manipulate these messages. >
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