Authentication

• "A White Paper on Authentication and Access Management Issues in Cross-organizational Use of Networked Information Resources" Clifford Lynch, editor. CNI. (Revised Discussion Draft of April 14, 1998)
• W3C Security Resources
  Includes links to a number of authentication pages from W3C including "The HTTP/1.0 Basic authentication scheme"
• Kerberos: The Network Authentication Protocol
  "Kerberos is a network authentication protocol. It is designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications by
• using secret-key cryptography. A free implementation of this protocol is available from the Massachusetts Institute of
• Technology. Kerberos is available in many commercial products as well."
• Guideline for the Use of Advanced Authentication Technology Alternatives (Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 190. 1994 September 28)
• "Implementation of JANET authentication and encryption services" by Andrew Young
• Common Authentication Technology (CAT) Working Group Home Page
• Authentication and Encryption Software (from NIH)
  List and links to various software programs
• "User Authentication on the Web" by Allen S. Firstenberg
• DePaul Authentication Help Page
  Example of a help page for end-users who run into authentication problems
• Proposal to Provide a Standardized WWW Authentication for the University. From North Carolina State University (Date: July 11, 1996)
• A University Common Authentication Project Information Resources & Communications DRAFT (University of California). July 1, 1997

  Selected RFCs Related to Authentication

  • RFC 1004: A Distributed-Protocol Authentication Scheme / D. L. Mills. - April 1987.
  • RFC 1334: PPP Authentication Protocols / B. Lloyd, W. Simpson. - October 1992.
  • RFC 1416: Telnet Authentication Option / D. Borman. - February 1993.
  • RFC 1704: On Internet Authentication / N. Haller and R. Atkinson. - October 1994.
  • RFC 2069: An Extension to HTTP : Digest Access Authentication / J. Franks, P. Hallam-Baker, J. Hostetler, P. Leach, A. Luotonen, E. Sink, L. Stewart - January 1997.
  • RFC 2222: Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) / J. Myers - October 1997.

Steganography (Digital Watermarks)

• "Safeguarding Digital Library Contents and Users Digital Watermarking" by Fred Mintzer, Jeffrey Lotspiech, Norishige Morimoto (from D-Lib Magazine)
• Is your watermark secure?
• The information hiding homepage - digital watermarking & steganography
• Information hiding: an annotated bibliography
• "Washed out" by Mark Ward (from the New Scientist)
• WWW References on Multimedia Watermarking and Data Hiding Research & Technology
  Extensive list of links