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Foil 101 Details on SESAME I

From Basic Principles of Java and Internet Security CPS616 Web Technologies -- Spring 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 SESAME uses the widely accepted Generic Security Service API (GSS-API).
2 The user gets mechanism transparency.
3 To access the distributed system, a user first authenticates to an Authentication Server to get a cryptographically protected token used to prove his or her identity.
4 The user then presents the token to a Privilege Attribute Server to obtain a guaranteed set of access rights contained in a Privilege Attribute Certificate (or PAC). The PAC is a specific form of Access Control Certificate that conforms to ECMA and ISO/ITU-T standards.

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