[CLUE-Talk] Re: MS Passport Linux equivalent

[Kevin Cullis]

Grant,

Thanks for the "Executive Summary" of Passport, what you said will go a
long way to getting the word out to the PHB's as to what's going on.

Now, if we can only find those white papers .....  :-0

Kevin

Grant Johnson wrote:
> 
> Passport is a single point authentication service.  It allows a
> variety of companies, applications, and websites to authenticate
> identity through a single point (MS) using a slightly modified, just
> incompatible version of Kerberos.
> 
> Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> 
> > On 03-11 20:24, Mike Benavides wrote:
> >
> >> I like to question how much personel information you have to give
> >> Microsoft
> >> to get a Passport account.  What do they do with all that
> >> information? What
> >> happened to our personel freedom.  If we are to believe MS, they
> >> are not
> >> gathering any information yet.  That is what the .NET monster and
> >> Hailstorm
> >> is all about.  The net will not truely be free with out us.....
> >>
> > What exactly IS Passport, anyway? I always find it hard(and
> > annoying) to wade through a
> > company's BS marketing terms for things that already have
> > well-defined terms
> > in the industry. Is Passport something that provides single-sign on
> > capability? Something else to do with authentication/authorization?
> > Any good
> > third-party FAQs or whitepapers?
> >

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