CA2308797A1 - Method and apparatus for implementing an extensible authentication mechanism in a web application server - Google Patents

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CA2308797A1
CA2308797A1 CA002308797A CA2308797A CA2308797A1 CA 2308797 A1 CA2308797 A1 CA 2308797A1 CA 002308797 A CA002308797 A CA 002308797A CA 2308797 A CA2308797 A CA 2308797A CA 2308797 A1 CA2308797 A1 CA 2308797A1
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Jim Stabile
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L63/00—Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security
    • H04L63/08—Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security for authentication of entities
    • H04L63/083—Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security for authentication of entities using passwords
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F21/00—Security arrangements for protecting computers, components thereof, programs or data against unauthorised activity
    • G06F21/30—Authentication, i.e. establishing the identity or authorisation of security principals
    • G06F21/31—User authentication
    • G06F21/33—User authentication using certificates
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L61/00—Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L63/00—Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security
    • H04L63/10—Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security for controlling access to devices or network resources
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L9/00—Cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communications; Network security protocols
    • H04L9/40—Network security protocols
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L67/00—Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications
    • H04L67/01—Protocols
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L69/00—Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
    • H04L69/30—Definitions, standards or architectural aspects of layered protocol stacks
    • H04L69/32—Architecture of open systems interconnection [OSI] 7-layer type protocol stacks, e.g. the interfaces between the data link level and the physical level
    • H04L69/322—Intralayer communication protocols among peer entities or protocol data unit [PDU] definitions
    • H04L69/329—Intralayer communication protocols among peer entities or protocol data unit [PDU] definitions in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

A highly scalable, flexible, and extensible mechanism is provided for authenticating a request from a client. In a preferred embodiment, the invention comprises an authentication engine, an authentication host, a plurality of providers coupled to the host which implement selected authentification schemes, and a machine independent communication mechanism which enables the various components to communicate with each other irregardless of the machine each component resides on. The communication mechanism enables the invention to be distributed, which in turn, makes the invention highly scalable. In operation, the authentication engine receives a request having associated therewith a protect string. The protect string specifies the authentication scheme or schemes that need to be implemented for that request.
The authentication engine parses the protect string into one or more provider requests, and sends the requests to the authentication host.
In response, the host forwards the requests to the appropriate providers for processing. The results of the providers' processing are sent back to the authentication engine, which then processes the results according to the protect string to determine whether the request has been authenticated. With the present invention, it is possible to add providers to the system, or to substitute a new provider for an existing provider, without changing or recompiling any other component in the system.
It is also possible to change the authentication schemes associated with a request by simply changing the protect string. These aspects of the invention make it possible to change implementation at deployment time, as opposed to compile time. This makes the invention highly flexible and extensible.
CA002308797A 1997-10-31 1998-10-29 Method and apparatus for implementing an extensible authentication mechanism in a web application server Expired - Lifetime CA2308797C (en)

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