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JAAS is a Java library that implements the standard Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) framework for user authentication and authorization. Learn about its features, administration, application interface, security system integration, and login modules.
Learn about PAM, a mechanism to integrate multiple authentication schemes into a high-level API. Find out how PAM works, its history, criticisms and related standards and implementations.
CAS is a single sign-on protocol for the web that allows users to access multiple applications with one credential. Learn about its history, features, implementations and related software.
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is a set of specifications that encompasses the XML-format for security tokens containing assertions to pass information about a user and protocols and profiles to implement authentication and authorization scenarios.
Learn how digest access authentication works, its advantages and disadvantages, and its history and standards. Digest access authentication is a method of verifying user identity with a web server using MD5 or SHA hashing and nonce values.
Learn how basic access authentication works in HTTP transactions, where a user agent provides a user name and password in a header field. Find out the features, security, and protocol of this method, and its alternatives and references.
HOTP is a standard method of generating human-readable passwords for authentication, based on HMAC and a secret key. Learn how HOTP works, its parameters, tokens, and reception in the computer security industry.
AWT is Java's original platform-dependent windowing, graphics, and user-interface widget toolkit, preceding Swing. It provides a general interface between Java and the native system, and a basic set of GUI widgets, but also has some limitations and issues.