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Subject: Towards Kerberizing Web Identity and Services: a new publication from the MIT Kerberos Consortium
Forwarding on behalf of Thomas Hardjono and the MIT Kerberos Consortium (MIT-KC) [disclosure: I'm a co-author; synergies between Kerberos and SAML are examined in the doc] =JeffH ------ Towards Kerberizing Web Identity and Services: a new publication from the MIT Kerberos Consortium 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. 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: (a) the use of the Kerberos authentication paradigm within the context of web-authentication and web-services security, (b) the possible architecture integration and interactions between the Kerberos infrastructure and web-services security infrastructure, (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 (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. 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 "Towards Kerberizing Web Identity and Services". This publication can be found in the following location: http://kerberos.org/software/kerbweb.pdf Additionally, as an accompaniment to this new publication the MIT-KC has created a new mailing-list dedicated to Kerberos-on-the-Web: mitkc-web@mit.edu This mailing-list aims to be an open venue where issues and challenges in bringing Kerberos to the Web can be discussed. All are invited to subscribe here: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/mitkc-web The MIT-KC is seeking feedback and input specifically on the above publication. These can be addressed to the mitkc-web@mit.edu mailing list, and/or the MIT-KC strategic advisor Thomas Hardjono <hardjono@MIT.EDU>, and/or to the publication authors. --- end
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