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The explosive growth of networked and internetworked computer systems during the past decade has brought about a need for increased protection mechanisms. This paper discusses three authentication protocols that incorporate the use of methods that present effective user authentication. The first two protocols have been previously discussed in the literature; the third protocol draws from the first two and others to produce an authentication scheme that provides both mutual authentication and secure key distribution which is easy to use, is compatible with present operating systems, is transparent across systems, and provides password file protection.

By Charles Cavaiani, Jim Alves-Foss, April 1996

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Crossroads The ACM Magazine for Students

Articles Tagged: Standardization

Articles & Features

Introduction to mobile computing

Cellular networks

Mobile IP

Service discovery in the future for mobile commerce

Can TCP be the transport protocol of the 21st century?

Electronic commerce universal access device-the knowledge-acquiring layered infrastructure (KALI) project

Connector: the Internet protocol, part one

Getting started with PGP

Introduction to Linux networking and security

Towards a standardization of multi-agent system framework

A simple SMTP framework for Java

Objective view point: a cornucopia of C++ resources

Electronic voting

Mutual authenticating protocol with key distribution in client/server environment

The Internet's history and development

The Fox Project

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In search of a customizable and uniform user interface

Information superwhichway?