Authentication involves proving the identity of a client and server to each other before exchanging sensitive information.

Possible topics:

  • Authentication for web
    • Issues with HTTP authentication (Basic/Digest, TLS, SPNEGO)
    • Web SSO as a "solution" to issues
    • API vs Server/Container
      • Examples / Investigations in Popular Frameworks
    • Reverse Proxies
    • Other "session" considerations (incl. Logout)
  • Authentication for non-web
    • TLS
    • OTP over TLS
    • SASL / GSS-API
      • Moonshot
    • Tie to web authentication
  • Server Authentication
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