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Foil 5 TANGO 2 Core Enhancements I

From Information and Communications ARL MSRC Year 3 Annual Review ARL MSRC PET Annual Review and Planning Workshop, Aberdeen, MD, -- August 3-5, 1999. by Geoffrey Fox, David Bernholdt, Roman Markowski, Doug Fein
1 Tango 1 highly functional, but needed major renovations for better generality, flexibility
2 Brand new Graphical User Interface
  • Simpler interface based on lessons from Tango 1.4
  • Improves ergonomy and saves screen space
  • However more Java code (swing classes), so longer to download
3 Authentication and security
  • Server-based user authentication, secret key based, strength better than UNIX but still not in Kerberos league
  • Support for sharing local encrypted data (currently simple files, with RDBMS, HTTP-based files written, not integrated -- release 2.1)
  • Server Registration (eliminates rogue servers , server spoofing)
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