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Review Of Single Sign On Systems. Mansee A. Mongia 05 th March,2008. Topic Of The Project: Review Of Single Sign On Systems. Objective of this project : Study the need for authentication and secure access in distributed environment. Is to understand the need of Single Sign on Systems.
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Review Of Single Sign On Systems Mansee A. Mongia 05th March,2008
Topic Of The Project: Review Of Single Sign On Systems Objective of this project : • Study the need for authentication and secure access in distributed environment. • Is to understand the need of Single Sign on Systems. • Is to do literature review and summarize the different approaches to Single Sign-On systems.
Single Sign On • Method of Access Control. • Single sign on is a session/user authentication process that allows a user to provide authentication once in order to access multiple applications. • Centralised authentication • Example- Microsoft Passport Network service developed and provided by Microsoft allows users to log in to many websites (hotmail, msn messenger, MSNBC…)using one accountitself.
Motivation Systems are growing at a fast pace and resources are being spread out in the distributed system. • Remove the headache for administration and users due to multiple authentication- Login once, access everything. • Maintaining secure access • Simplified Management • critical for the usability of distributed systems - Ease of use. • Allow remote or distributed users to work productively
Single Sign On Capability In Distributed Operating System • Identifying one selves all the time can be a burden to users. • Enabling single sign-on (SSO) allows the user have secure access without requiring an additional authentication prompt. • Improvement of network performance by removing the overhead of authenticating users every time they access the resources / machines in a distributed environment. • Improves security through the reduced need for a user to remember lots of authentication information.
Related Work Identified • Some of the Single sign on Systems which I have Identified so far are- • Kerberos • Sesame • KryptoKnight • OpenID