VO Infrastructure (Standard): IVOA Single-Sign-On Profile: Authentication Mechanisms
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Approved client-server authentication mechanisms are described for the IVOA single-sign-on profile: No Authentication; HTTP Basic Authentication; TLS with passwords; TLS with client certificates; Cookies; Open Authentication; Security Assertion Markup Language; OpenID. Normative rules are given for the implementation of these mechanisms, mainly by reference to pre-existing standards. The Authorization mechanisms are out of the scope of this document.
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This resource was registered on: 2015 Dec 04 11:39:00ZThis resource description was last updated on: 2018 Feb 21 07:20:00Z
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