SESAME Security System
http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/cosic/sesame3.html
SESAME (a Secure European System for Applications in a Multi-vendor Environment) is a European research and development project, part funded by the European Commission under its RACE program. It is also the name of the technology that came out of that project.
The SESAME technology offers sophisticated single sign-on with added distributed access control features and cryptographic protection of interchanged data.
SESAME is a construction kit. It is a set of security infrastructure components for product developers. It provides the underlying bedrock upon which full managed single sign-on products can be built.
Examples of such products are ICL's Access Manager and Bull SA's Integrated System Management AccessMaster (ISM AccessMaster).
- Siemens (Software & Systems Engineering Ltd) is also using SESAME technology to improve its secure X.400 mail product set.