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Foil 4 TANGO 2 core enhancements I

From Overview of Tango 2 Tutorials at ACM Java Grande Meeting -- June 14 99. by Marek Podgorny
Brand new Graphical User Interface
  • Implements new cyberspace navigation paradigm
  • Conforms to prevailing, intuitive "look and feel"
  • Improves ergonomy and saves screen space
  • Less agile, though....
Authentication and security
  • Server-based user authentication, secret key based, strength better than UNIX but still not in Kerberos league
  • Support for a variety of repositories: LDAP, RDBMS, local encrypted files, HTTP-based files
  • Licensing (eliminates rogue servers )
  • Secure Sockets used for server-client communication
Firewall support: SOCKS4 supported for client-server link

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