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IVOA Single-Sign-On Profile: Authentication Mechanisms
Version 1.00

IVOA Working Draft 19 May 2006

Interest/Working Group:
http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IvoaGridAndWebServices
Author(s):
Grid and Web services Working Group
Editor(s):
Guy Rixon

Abstract

Approved client-server authentication mechanisms are described for the IVOA single-sign-on profile: digital signatures (for SOAP services); TLS with passwords (for user sign-on points); TLS with client certificates (for everything else). Normative rules are given for the implementation of these mechanisms, mainly by reference to pre-existing standards.

Status of this document

This is an IVOA Working Draft for review by IVOA members and other interested parties.
It is a draft document and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use IVOA Working Drafts as reference materials or to cite them as other than "work in progress".



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