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FOAF+SSL: RESTful Authentication for the Social Web

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security management

Overview The paper describes a simple protocol for RESTful authentication, using widely deployed technologies such as HTTP, SSL/TLS and Semantic Web vocabularies. This protocol can be used for one-click sign-on to web sites using existing browsers requiring the user to enter neither an identifier nor a password. Upon this, distributed, open yet secure social networks and applications can be built. After summarizing each of these technologies and how they come together in FOAF+SSL, the paper describes declaratively the reasoning of a server in its authentication decision. Finally, the paper compares this protocol to others in the same space.

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Publisher	Sun Microsystems	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Security Management, SSL - TLS

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Web services: Glossary

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Sony Ericsson helps bridge the Wi-Fi/GSM gap

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Sun and Microsoft make software together

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Applications

Skype hopes ID measures will win business users

Skype is also researching single sign-on authentication, and is looking to integrate this into lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) interoperability between Skype and unnamed third party software.

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Telecoms
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skype

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Secure remote access closes in

On the one hand there are secure socket layer (SSL) VPNs, which are easy to deploy, but which generally provide access to a fairly limited range of applications, primarily those that are web-based. Authentication and access controls, backed up by...

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LANs
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vpn,
remote access

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