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- RFC 1507:
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- Title: DASS - Distributed Authentication Security Service
- Author: C. Kaufman
- Mailbox: kaufman@zk3.dec.com
- Pages: 119
- Characters: 287,809
- Updates/Obsoletes: none
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- Authentication is a security service. The goal of authentication is to
- reliably learn the name of the originator of a message or request. The
- classic way by which people authenticate to computers (and by which
- computers authenticate to one another) is by supplying a password.
- There are a number of problems with existing password based schemes
- which DASS attempts to solve. The goal of DASS is to provide
- authentication services in a distributed environment which are both
- more secure (more difficult for a bad guy to impersonate a good guy)
- and easier to use than existing mechanisms.
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- This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
- It does not specify an Internet standard. Discussion and suggestions
- for improvement are requested. Please refer to the current edition of
- the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" for the standardization
- state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is
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