RE: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the plea for integrating

[Chris Newman <Chris.Newman at Sun.COM>]

Kemp, David P. wrote on 7/30/07 11:15 -0400:
> "Today's interim solution to authentication"???  What do you
> see as the ideal, goal solution to authentication?
> ...
> So my question at the top is genuine - what characteristics
> of today's authentication solutions make them "interim" and
> dubious, and what characteristics are required of ideal
> Internet-scale authentication solutions?

This is the wrong forum to discuss authentication technologies in detail.  Some 
of the problems with the presently deployed authentication mechanisms are 
described in draft-hartman-webauth-phishing-05.

               - Chris



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