Authentication

Building e-Infrastructures with AARC

Jens Jensen
30 April 2015 at 4:06pm
case studies
Authentication
e-infrastructure
This is a little bit of a pre-case-study as the AARC project hasn't even started at the time of writing. Nevertheless, many projects are starting up and attempt to solve or work around the types of problems that AARC aims to address - either by building on existing work, or by reinventing the wheel and "solving" the problem again.
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May 14: Dundee University connecting with the NHS - Andrew Howe

Malcolm Teague
27 May 2014 at 5:48pm
NHS-HE
Dundee
eduroam
Authentication
VDI
Connectivity
Andrew Howe, a key contributor to the NHS-HE Connectivity Best Practice Working Group & now Co-Chair, describes 4 of the initiatives with the NHS at Dundee: Local Bi-Directional Gateway Reciprocal Shared Wi-Fi Service University and NHS VDI Access directly from NHS PCs
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Allowing users to link Identities

Stephen Booth
18 March 2014 at 11:20am
Authentication
AAAI
eIWG technology
One of the potential problems we have identified with AuthN tools like UK-Federation and Moonshot is that they (for good reasons) generate a different identifier for each service domain.
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Guest and Public Network Access

Andrew Cormack
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 15:12
Authentication
guests
Visitors
Version: 7 Issued: January 2020 Reference: GEN-DOC-002 (previously published as PB/INFO/073) Author: A. Cormack & M. O'Leary Last Reviewed Date: 06/01/2020
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User Authentication

Andrew Cormack
Friday, July 6, 2012 - 14:11
Authentication
guests
Version: 3 Issued: July 2019 Reference: GEN-DOC-008 (previously published as PB/INFO/041) Owner: A. Cormack Last Reviewed Date: 04/08/2020
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Moonshoting Firefox

Iain Emsley
15 March 2012 at 2:34pm
Authentication
Firefox
Moonshot
<p>The Firefox extension supporting the Negotiate authentication method has been taken as a template for a new component implementing support for Moonshot. A compiled version working with Firefox from the image is <a href="https://meta.cesnet.cz/soubory/moonshot.xpi">available</a>.</p><h2>Own build of the extension</h2><p>Since there seems to be no reasonable SDK for Firefox, the most straightforward way how to build the extension is to add it to the Firefox sources and build it as part of the whole software.
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Using server certificates factsheet

Anonymous
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 16:22
Authentication
SSL
factsheet
jcs
security
server certificates
PB/INFO/069 Most users know vaguely that web addresses beginning http:// and https:// are different. An https:// web site (‘secure HTTP’) provides users with some protection against some types ofInternet threat (though both server and client computers have to do more work):
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Certificate Service

Anonymous
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 14:48
Authentication
SSL
jcs
server certificates
All Jisc services are governed by the Janet policies. This page contains instructions for: joining the Jisc Certificate Service how to request a certificate It also contains links to:
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