Authentication
Articles and resources about trends and issues in implementing authentication for online government services.
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Digital Signatures
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Articles and resources about trends and issues in digital signatures in government.
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Authentication, digital signatures and PKI issues - Part 1 - Archive
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Archived resources regarding authentication issues, electronic/digital signatures and public key infrastructure which has relevance to government. This first part includes articles about Argentina, Canada, Europe, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom as well as a number of resources on topics related to authentication, digital signatures and PKI issues.
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Authentication, digital signatures and PKI issues - Part 2 - Archive
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Archived resources regarding authentication issues, electronic/digital signatures and public key infrastructure which has relevance to government. This second part includes articles about authentication, digital signatures and PKI in the United States, as well as articles about e-authentication in the United States.
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Authentication, digital signatures and PKI issues - Part 3 - Archive
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Archived resources regarding authentication issues, electronic/digital signatures and public key infrastructure which has relevance to government. This third part includes articles about e-authentication and email authentication in the United States, user authentication issues as well as general articles and links.
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Two-factor authentication in two years
- By John Fontana for Identity Matters. ZDNet, April 3, 2013. "Summary: Two-factor authentication requirements will be accepted by web sites and end users at least to aid sensitive transactions, analyst predicts. Within a couple of years, two-factor authentication is going to be unilaterally required by online service providers and accepted by users at least for sensitive transactions, according to Forrester analyst Eve Maler..."
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An Authenticated Internet
- By Lauren Price. CircleID, September 28, 2009. "Discussions around DNSSEC are so often focused on the root, the attacks, what DNSSEC does and doesn't do and so on—and these are all valid and important points. But there is far less attention focused on the opportunities that will surface from an authenticated internet..."
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Where should government go with single sign-on?
- by Craig Thomler. eGov AU - eGovernment thoughts and speculations from an Australian perspective, Thursday, May 21, 2009. "Single sign-on is often seen as one of the Holy Grails of the internet - the ability to use a single logon to access all your secure online accounts and conduct transactions with whoever you choose..."
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Facebook gives major boost to OpenID
- The move should simplify the process of registering for and logging into Facebook, by Juan Carlos Perez (IDG News Service). Computerworld, 19 May, 2009. "Facebook has adopted the OpenID user-identity framework to simplify how people register for and log into the social networking site. It means that people will be able to sign into Facebook using their log-in credentials from Gmail..."
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The keys to authentication
- Coalition's new research center to focus on the challenges of identity management, By William Jackson. Government Computer News, 17 November 2008. "Identity management is the crucial element — and in many ways the missing link — in Web-based services. A coalition of public, private, academic and commercial organizations is addressing the problem by creating a group with the goal of identifying gaps in identity management solutions and driving research to fill them..."
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The Best Damn Web Marketing Checklist for Login and My Account Pages
- by Stoney deGeyter. Search Engine Guide, 17 September 2008. "... The list covers items that have to do with the process of logging into or accessing "my account" pages, and the information found on those pages..."
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Captcha is broken - now what?
- by Tim Anderson. The Age, September 1, 2008. "... Captcha systems to stop automated postings have been 'completely broken' by spammers, experts say. So what's the alternative? Tim Anderson reports..."
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How CAPTCHA got trashed
- The wiggly words are now most useful for malware authors, by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Computerworld). CSO Online, 15 July 2008. "CAPTCHA used to be an easy and useful way for Web administrators to authenticate users. Now it's an easy and useful way for malware authors and spammers to do their dirty work. CAPTCHA -- Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart -- was a good idea in its day..."
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New reference architecture for open authentication standards
- By William Jackson. Government Computer News, 7 April 2008. "San Francisco — The Initiative for Open Authentication (OATH), a 4-year-old industry coalition promoting the use of open standards for interoperable strong authentication, hopes that the release of a new version of its reference architecture will help spur adoption of the specifications by industry and consumers..."
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Signature style
- By Corinna Wu. Government Computer News, 28 May 2007. "In a famous cartoon from The New Yorker, a pooch sitting at a computer proclaims, "On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog." That may be true, at least for the gifted canines among us. But if the typist is a human, "they can tell if you're a left-handed female piano player with an ergonomic keyboard," Neal Krawetz of Hacker Factor Solutions told attendees at a Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas last year. Since the 1980s, research has shown that the way a person types is as unique as a fingerprint..."
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The Word on E-mail Authentication
- By Michael Hickins. Internetnews.com, August 1, 2006. "In a step that should help slash the volume of unwanted and pernicious e-mail, a group developing technical specs for the e-mail authentication standard DKIM (Domain Keys Identified Mail), has just completed a major portion of its work..."
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Looking to a future without passwords
- By Bill Brenner. SearchCIO.com, 28 June 2006. "... A majority of 358 IT professionals who took a SearchSecurity.com survey on identity and access management in April said passwords are obsolete and want to replace them with stronger methods that include two-factor authentication and single sign-on..."
This category last updated: 4 April 2013